On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:34:53PM +1100, Mike Lake wrote:
> So Debian is snack eh ? :-)

Yup.

> 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 

gnome-core just contains the core set of gnome applications.

Generally if you want to remove a big sub-system, picking on of the
dependant libraries is a better choice. I'd suggest trying libgnome (or 
libgnome32).

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

It realises there are updated packages available and that those update do
not rely upon gnome-core.

Anand

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