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Hello,

I'd like to know if there's a way of disabling installing recommended packages with slapt-get. For example, I tried to install xfce-power-manager and I saw that cups and xfce was being retrieved, and then thunar-thumbnailers and lame, orc, speex etc all came down, and I don't need all of them.
If there's a flag for slapt-get in the terminal or a file I can set up that would be great.

Well, if not then I will download all the packages that I want from download.salix.org and install by hand.
Thanks

try where you will find that doing will give you what you want.

Oh yes, man slapt-get, but --no-deps might not work very well as packages have dependencies which are essential,
Or does slapt-get not have "recommends" (as apt has in Debian) only dependencies?

slapt-get never installs recommended packages. It only installs dependencies. What you're seeing are dependencies.

Ok then, that's something learnt!
cheers