* Adam Williamson:
As a side note, if your goal is "to maintain a minimal system
installation", perhaps what you might want is to be able to configure
dnf to simply *never* install weak (Recommends) or very weak (Suggests)
dependencies. IIRC, this is configurable on SUSE - you can set this as
permanent package manager configuration. I'm not sure if it is in DNF,
but if not, perhaps it could be?
My experience with Debian is that their --no-install-recommends feature
is pretty aggressive, so you often end up manually chasing dependencies
to get the required feature set if you disable the default of installing
weak dependencies. So it's usually more convenient to install them
automatically, and the remove select parts you don't want. YMMV, of
course.
Thanks,
Florian