I have found that if I know the video driver I want (xserver-xorg-video-intel, say) and I install that
first, then all the other, unnecessary video drivers don't get dragged in. If you are using Aptitude in Etch and both apt-get and Aptitude in Lenny or Sid, there may be another issue. The default behavior of those package managers is to treat recommended packages as requirements. To turn off this behavior, you can add these lines to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file (it may be empty now, if you've never messed with it).
Quote:
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";
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That could end up saving you a lot of disc space over time.