I like to chose the basic tasks and do clean up with dselect before packages go on.
Can't you use dselect to remove emacs? I've never done that, but I have used it to replace exim with sendmail and vice versa. I like the way dselect lists all the packages it thinks you need and those it thinks you can't have based on your changes and then let's you override those choices. Also, the deb package explanations displayed in dselect are some of the best written and most informative descriptions I've ever seen. The church of emacs will be angry to hear of your blasphemy, but will be content in your contrition. Free implementations of vi are not a sin, they are a penance. Those who visit you systems will don the horse hair cloak appropriate to those too well versed with commercial offerings. Your often expressed dread of VB boredom is also pleasing. May God give you your daily bread but keep you from VB. On Friday 26 March 2004 10:46, John Hebert wrote: > Will, > > I agree with you, those are fine apps and work well > for newbies. But that advice was to Shannon, who is no > newbie. > > I find that dselect adds too much stuff for my taste, > as I can spell fairly well (spellcheckers) and don't > need emacs+ (20MB) installed on my servers.
