On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies
that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are
not
causing any
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 18:53:36, Bob Proulx wrote:
I would prefer having more smaller bundles that could be installed
piecemeal. However the upstream gnome developers don't feel the same
way. They would like to see a 100% gnome system top to bottom and
think doing anything else is wrong
Unfortunately this does not appear to have solved it after all- after
running both apt-get install on the packages empathy wanted to remove
(gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment, task-gnome-desktop) and
apt-mark manual, attempting to purge empathy tries to remove these
same packages again.
Hello cortman,
cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately this does not appear to have solved it after all- after
running both apt-get install on the packages empathy wanted to remove
(gnome, gnome-core, gnome-desktop-environment, task-gnome-desktop) and
apt-mark manual, attempting to
Ok- I must have misunderstood- apparently there's no way to uninstall
empathy without also uninstalling the gnome metapackages, the trick is
to mark all the contents of the packages as manually installed,
therefore you can uninstall the metapackage safely.
Correct?
Regards,
Cortman
On Thu, Jul
Hello cortman,
cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok- I must have misunderstood- apparently there's no way to uninstall
empathy without also uninstalling the gnome metapackages, the trick is
to mark all the contents of the packages as manually installed,
therefore you can uninstall the
Hi all,
I have a brand new installation of Debian Wheezy, updated to the
current weekly build installed on my Toshiba A505 laptop. I chose to
install the graphical desktop environment, laptop uitilites, and
standard system utilities at tasksel during installation.
The Gnome desktop comes with a
Hello cortman,
cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote:
So I ran apt-get purge empathy from
the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run
apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of packages that
were automatically installed and are no longer required. Below is a
On 7/25/2012 1:17 PM, cortman wrote:
Hi all,
I have a brand new installation of Debian Wheezy, updated to the
current weekly build installed on my Toshiba A505 laptop. I chose to
install the graphical desktop environment, laptop uitilites, and
standard system utilities at tasksel during
Thanks much Claudius. Solved.
Regards,
Cortman
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net wrote:
Hello cortman,
cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote:
So I ran apt-get purge empathy from
the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run
apt-get for
Mark Allums wrote:
cortman wrote:
Is this a bug?
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not
causing any problems. It is just suggesting that if you don't want
gnome
On Mi, 25 iul 12, 14:37:52, Bob Proulx wrote:
I go through and mark the high level packages as manually installed by
running the install command again. Since they are already installed
it won't do anything but mark them as being wanted. For example:
apt-get install libreoffice
Just
On 7/25/2012 3:37 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
cortman wrote:
Is this a bug?
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not
causing any problems. It is just
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I go through and mark the high level packages as manually installed by
running the install command again. Since they are already installed
it won't do anything but mark them as being wanted. For example:
apt-get install libreoffice
Just
Mark Allums wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not
causing any problems. It is just suggesting that if you
On 7/25/2012 7:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I recall an incident where I wanted to remove some cruft
(can't recall, but it was something silly, like AMOR) and apt wanted
to remove 3/4 of the packages on my system, over 700 packages.
Next time you hit a case like that it would be great if you
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