sarge - etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi,

doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I
so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to
aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed:

Before the upgrade I did still with sarge sources an aptitude
dist-upgrade - with the result that nothing was to do.

But following the path described in the release notes many packages
were installed which I had purged on my sarge install: Especially an
number of meta-packages like kdemultimedia, gnome, gnome-office etc.

This wasn't a big problem (except that I now have to remove all that
stuff) but on my laptop I don't have much space left and have to
assure that no packages are installed that I don't want/need.

So my question: How can I - using aptitude - make sure that not all
those meta-packages etc. are drawn in?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Andreas Goesele

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Re: sarge - etch: aptitude problem

2007-04-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:01:53AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote:
 Hi,
 
 doing an upgrade I encountered among others the following problem: I
 so far used apt-get, but following the release notes I switched to
 aptitude. But as a result much to much packages were installed:
 
 So my question: How can I - using aptitude - make sure that not all
 those meta-packages etc. are drawn in?

By using the interactive mode of aptitude and confirming actions before
going ahead.

Doug.


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