Hi all,

So Debian is snack eh ? :-)
I am trying to do a dist-upgrade from potato to woody but dont have enough
space in /var for the deb archives (have 70Meg need 120 Meg). As gnome is
big and I dont actually use it I though I would remove that which would free
up lots of space and those updates for gnome would not get downloaded.
But when I ask the system to remove gnome (guessing that I remove gnome-core 
and the dependency info will remove the other gnomeish things) it wants 
to install new packages.

> apt-get remove gnome-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

debconf debianutils defoma dialog esound gconf gnome-bin
gnome-control-center gnome-mime-data gnome-terminal gs-aladdin gsfonts libart2 
libbz2-1.0
libc6 libc6-dev libcapplet0 libcapplet1 libcdparanoia0 libdb2 libdb2-util libdb3
libdps1 libesd0 libforms0.89 libfreetype6 libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2
libgdk-pixbuf2 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-vfs-common libgnome-vfs0
libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0
libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtkxmhtml1 libncurses5 libnewt0 liboaf0 liborbit0
libpanel-applet0 libpaperg libpng2 libpopt0 libscrollkeeper0 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
libungif4g libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml1 libzvt2 locales nas-lib oaf perl perl-5.005
perl-5.005-base perl-base perl-modules scrollkeeper slang1 whiptail xbase-clients
xfaces xlib6g xlibmesa3 xlibs xserver-common 

The following packages will be REMOVED:

gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session xcontrib xlib6g-dev
xpm4g xsm 

The following NEW packages will be installed:

defoma dialog gconf gnome-mime-data libbz2-1.0 libcapplet1 libcdparanoia0 libdb3
libdps1 libfreetype6 libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2
libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-vfs-common libgnome-vfs0
libgtk1.2-common liboaf0 libscrollkeeper0 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
libungif4g libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml1 nas-lib oaf perl perl-modules scrollkeeper
xlibmesa3 xlibs 

41 packages upgraded, 32 newly installed, 9 to remove and 173  not upgraded.
Need to get 31.4MB of archives. After unpacking 20.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Mike

Why does it want to add new packages when I have asked it to remove gnome ?

-- 
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Michael Lake, University of Technology, Sydney
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