On 09/02/2014 02:44 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 10:18:21AM -0700, David
Christensen wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 02:09 AM, Alexandre DENIS wrote:
>> Documentation is not *required*, it is suggested or recommended. Put
>> the following two lines in your /etc/apt/apt.conf
>> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
>> APT::Install-Recommends "0";
>
> I shouldn't have to do that -- the people who package and contribute to
> Debian need to pay more attention to space efficiency.
Maybe bandwidth efficiency. But in this day when pretty much the
smallest hard drives available are 500GB (even for cheap laptops) and
most commonly 1TB, disk space doesn't seem like much of a worry.
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