Thank you both, Julian and Josselin. Josselin, I really didn't know that gnome-core is a metapackage. I thought it had binaries/data/links/conf/whatsoever in it (with, maybe, the gnome core applications). Just after your answer, I ran "dpkg -L gnome-core" just to discover you are right. Shame on me.
Julian, I made almost as you advised (just after the afore mentioned discovery). On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On Do, 2010-12-16 at 13:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit : >> > Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. >> > Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which >> > I >> > gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many >> > useless >> > dependencies). >> > >> > I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it >> > should be >> > downgraded to just a "recommendation", or gnome-core should be split in >> > more >> > fine-grained packages. >> >> The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking >> user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to >> installation profiles. >> >> If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your >> own selection of packages by hand. > > Or create your own meta packages, like I do. In any case, due to > technical limitations with CD building, those dependencies had to be > added, as gnome-desktop-environment was too large too fit on CD1. > > In any case, too get rid of gnome-core on your system, you just need to > mark the packages it depends on as manually installed and then remove > it; the following commands should do this: > > aptitude unmarkauto ~R^gnome-core$ > aptitude remove gnome-core > > > > -- > Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member > > See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org