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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: When will the madness end?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 09:36:35 -0400
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rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:20:14 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> 419MB of disk space and 214 newly installed packages for a hobbyist,
>> simple-simon text editor?

The "madness" lies in starting with a base install, installing a GNOME editor,
being suprised that it installs a bunch of stuff for the GNOME desktop, and
then counting it up and posting it to COLA.

A few time I have decided not to install a package because of the number of
(usually KDE) dependencies it has.

> Just use the handy package manager GUI and ignore the noise. It will be 
> just like installing something on Windows that downloads the world.
>
> I don't use it but apparently have it on the Ubuntu box.
>
> gedit is already the newest version (41.0-3).
> gedit set to manually installed.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
> required:
>   libftdi1-2 libgeos3.10.2 libhidapi-hidraw0 libqgis-3d3.22.7 libqgis-
> analysis3.22.7
>   libqgis-app3.22.7 libqgis-core3.22.7 libqgis-gui3.22.7 libqgis-
> native3.22.7
>   libqgis-server3.22.7 libqgisgrass8-3.22.7 libqgispython3.22.7 libsigrok4 
> libsigrokcxx4
>   libsigrokdecode4 pulseview sigrok-cli sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
>
> Does Windows ever offer to take out the garbage?

Heh, often an update on Linux will slightly reduced the amount of
installed bytes.

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