On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 14:03 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 11:13 +0900, jam wrote: > > > > dpkg and apt seem to not have the options. Every one says > > aptitude is better. Wow not for the likes of me! but it still > > does not allow packages to be broken. > > > > Short of lists and a stick can the package manger be forced? > > It can be but you don't need to. Remove ubuntu-desktop and keep the > packages it references that you do want.
To Rob and Jeff thanks. I DO want the ubuntu-desktop, but I won't use and don't want most of the apps including the ones desktop depends on. I have tried icewm with nautilus but that does not fill the needs (but does work :-) In particular the file manager is much more kludgy on it's own vs in the desktop At this point even openoffice is depended on by the desktop so I can't even ditch that James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
