gdm3 is being pulled in via a "Recommends" chain. Disabling recommends will avoid it[*].
On my groovy system it reduced new packages installed from 452/291MB of archives to 56/165MB of archives. Seems like the right thing to do for at least --gpgpu installs - but maybe for all?
gdm3 is being pulled in via a "Recommends" chain. Disabling recommends will avoid it[*].
On my groovy system it reduced new packages installed from 452/291MB of archives to 56/165MB of archives. Seems like the right thing to do for at least --gpgpu installs - but maybe for all?
[*] ubuntu- drivers. orig 2020-07-29 15:24:08.000000000 +0000 ubuntu- drivers 2020-10-06 19:18:53.208559657 +0000
--- /usr/bin/
+++ /usr/bin/
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@
return
ret = subprocess. call([' apt-get' , 'install', '-o', options: :=--force- confnew' , '-y'] + to_install) options: :=--force- confnew' , '-y', recommends' ] + to_install)
- 'DPkg::
+ 'DPkg::
+ '--no-install-
oem_ meta_to_ install = fnmatch. filter( to_install, 'oem-*-meta')