Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No. That won't convert *anything* because all of the ubuntu-desktop > dependancies will still be lying around.
Hmm. I'm having a difficult time parsing that. You may well be right if you mean that the constituent packages of the ubuntu-desktop metapackage would not be removed, only the metapackage itself. I've never tried such conversions: I'd much rather build up systems from a minimal base than create a situation where I must do mass removals. Generally, when despite best intentions I need to remove some glob of packages, I find I get best results (fewest surprises, leftover junk, and unintended side-effects) by gathering target package names from a "dpkg -l" inventory, feeding them into an "apt-get remove" command line, and then cleaning up using deborphan and debfoster. Fortunately, I've avoided the need for that ever since I figured out that GNOME and KDE are, among other disadvantages, dependency hairballs and not worth the pain. > The best way is to let aptitude figure everything out at once: > $ sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop ubuntu-desktop- > > (The minus at the end of a package name means to uninstall, even though > an install statement was given) Neat trick. I never saw that one before. Probably because I don't trust aptitude (see below). > And aptitude will take care of removing unused dependancies (i.e. unused > software packages that were part of ubunutu, but aren't part of > xubuntu) (I think you mean "were part of the ubuntu-desktop metapackage, but aren't part of the xubuntu-desktop one".) I still don't trust aptitude to make package decisions for me. I've seen it screw up _way_ too often. And what's this bull*** about either installing all Suggests: packages, or none of them? Sorry, that's just broken. Fortunately, apt-get isn't. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
