Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not an expert with pinning rules, but there are two obvious > problems: > > 1. There are a lot of related packages that don't start with 'gcc'. For > example, g++. So you might need more rules. >
I don't have g++ installed so this is not a problem. > 2. 'gcc-2.95' depends on 'gcc' which is a meta-package that will install > version 3.3, etc. etc. (This according to what I can see in dselect.) I > can't image how you're going to get around this with apt. > This matches what I observe. I think this is a bug and will probably report it. > suggestion 1: Use dselect, you should be able to deinstall all kinds of > things to save space. My experience is that it's better for tweaking & > fine-tuning your packages than apt. > My experience is that dselect shows the same dependencies as apt, and is a lot slower. I'll try it again. > suggestion 2: If space is that limited and you really never compile > anything but the kernel, desinstall gcc and build the kernels for this > machine somewhere else. (Not that you won't have thought of this > already.) > This is really ugly, but probably doable. > HTH, Paul Thanks, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
