apt: Prevent installation of recommended packages
This is a bit of a split problem: we run an embedded Linux distribution and
don't need most of the packages that desktops have, but at the same time, we
don't want to break things. This allows us to err on the side of still remaining
functional, while causing some small breakages here and there.
Change-Id: I27ec72afb147ce14ed26f640427b303dbf403b6b
diff --git a/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01-no-install-recommends b/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01-no-install-recommends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6cb1f21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01-no-install-recommends
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// Prevent the auto-installation of recommends when packages are installed,
+// since we are primarily an embedded system and have limited disk and RAM.
+
+APT::Install-Recommends "false";
