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 -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
