superfluous (??) proliferation
I'm running F27, fully updated; but my query has to do with a
phenomenon I've been noticing for years. It's probably innocuous, but I'd
be glad of reassurance about that.
Let me say in advance that I realize any application I launch may
itself launch others, without telling me; and I'm fine with that.
I use very little of KDE; when trying to do a lean fresh install,
I look only for Konqueror and k3b. But dnf soon begins to list dozens of
KDE apps as upgrades. Something very similar occurs with LibreOffice: I
install only the word processor, but dnf pulls in lots of applications I
have no use (that I know of) for.
Today I got a sidelight on this habit. I had somehow (certainly
not by any conscious decision of mine) managed to install speech-
dispatcher, and tried to remove it. Dnf proposed to take away most of KDE
along with it, including k3b and Konqueror.
Is incruftation a word? Do I really use a couple hundred
applications all the time, unconsciously? Do the security gurux no longer
advise us to make lean installs?
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