[zh3]

Thanks, hopefully this'll turn up on a google search for someone who just wants to turn simple text markup into a PDF ('apt' didn't offer the option of not installing asciidoc-dblatex).

[anthk]

            apt --no-install-recommends foobar

You can set some settings for apt-get in the config file so it doesn't pull the recommended packages as enforced dependencies.

[paradox460]

I'll stick it in the article, in a closing notes section