On Tuesday 03 July 2012 17:43:29 David Hare wrote:
> Here the major irritations are metapackages and recommends when
> installing. I spent a lot of time working out how to exclude (for me)
> unwanted stuff: kdeaccessibility, kmail, kdesudo, sudo-trinity,
> kgtk-qt3-trinity, kdegames, kdetoys, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kpackage
> ..... �Some are on the bug list and can affect the entire system.
>
> I certainly don't want networking nor system admin tasks dependent on any
> DE
>
> For example, why are kdesudo-trinity and kpackage-trinity �"recommends"
> of kaffeine-trinity? This is in the bug list.
>
> With the bloat (probably also numerous buggy packages) out, TDE is still
> found here to be the most functional DE available.

This is where ignorance is most definitely _not_ bliss.  (Is it ever?)  I lag 
a long way behind you in knowledge of the nitty gritty.  So, there is my 
solution!  Get my head down and become more competent!  I'm all for avoiding 
buggy unwanted packages - but have no idea how to exclude them.  Other than 
by installing things one by one, of course, but it doesn't seem to be 
feasible for the base system.

Lisi