Re: When will the madness end?

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:20:14 -0400, DFS wrote:
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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.
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I don't use it but apparently have it on the Ubuntu box.
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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.
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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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