AG wrote: > Thanks H.S. Good advice and can dispense with those suggested > components of KDE without any regret. > > Couple of quickies: > > (1) How would I track down the guilty metapackage?
hmm .. good question. I do it the hard way, but the apt gurus here may be able to tell you how to it the smart way. I just do: $> sudo aptitude -s purge <package I desire to purge> and see what else it is going to remove. I check those package and if some of them are important looking (e.g. gnome-desktop-environment), I check those packages with: $> apt-cache show <package name> the description there then tells me if it is a meta package and whether it can be safely removed. One runs in to this problem quite often if one is trying to remove individual components of a desktop env. > (2) I use apt-get > generally and you're suggesting aptitude -s. Are there any likely > hiccups mixing package management systems? Not that I know of. The only thing I am aware of is that if I install a package with aptitude, and if it pulls in other packages as well, then those package also get removed if I later use aptitude to remove the package I installed earlier. Helps keep the system clean. Not sure if apt-get does that. Besides, aptitude is recommended over apt-get for quite a while now. I am sure there are other important differences. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org