5 Oct
2020
5 Oct
'20
9:36 p.m.
On Monday 05 of October 2020 21:40:08 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 04 October 2020 11:58:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
wrote:
Hi Bill,
these packages certainly do not install automatically, without user
intervention. The only dependency is that the tde-trinity metapackage has
the symbolic name "tde-i18n-trinity" (virtual package) set as Suggests
(less weight than Recommends), which fills all of these language packages.
However, as I mentioned, there would be a necessary collaboration from the
user to choose to install this virtual package name.
Cheers
--
Slávek
Anno domini 2020 Sun, 4 Oct 11:52:09 -0700
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
Sure, of course I can uninstall them. The thing is, I *never* installed
them at all; I would have noticed something like THAT.
Therefore, one would think, I ought not have to install or uninstall
them now.
Bill
So ... to add the question to my own non-answer: Are all those language
packs, by some chance, included as part of some other packages or
metapackages, or whatever?
I am quite sure that I never installed them at all, as I would have
noticed when apt-get listed them as packages to be installed or
upgraded; only with this recent upgrade did they suddenly offer
themselves.
In fact I did have to uninstall them manually, after which they did not
appear among items to be upgraded. So it's not a critical problem, and
now they are gone, problem solved for the moment.
The real question is, How did they get installed in the first place?
Assuming that I didn't just go temporarily blind and miss something so
obvious, then the next most likely possibility is that they get
installed as dependencies for other items, or that they are part of a
metapackage. Can anybody answer this question? as I would prefer not to
install these or other unwanted packages.
Bill Now that I checked my own sources.list, it
occurred to me to try an
upgrade, and there are lots of new Trinity packages available.
However, many of these are language packs that I don't really need:
tde-i18n-af-trinity tde-i18n-ar-trinity tde-i18n-az-trinity
tde-i18n-be-trinity tde-i18n-bg-trinity
tde-i18n-bn-trinity tde-i18n-br-trinity tde-i18n-bs-trinity
tde-i18n-ca-trinity tde-i18n-cs-trinity tde-i18n-csb-trinity
tde-i18n-cy-trinity tde-i18n-da-trinity tde-i18n-de-trinity
tde-i18n-el-trinity tde-i18n-engb-trinity tde-i18n-eo-trinity
tde-i18n-es-trinity tde-i18n-et-trinity tde-i18n-eu-trinity
tde-i18n-fa-trinity tde-i18n-fi-trinity tde-i18n-fr-trinity
tde-i18n-fy-trinity tde-i18n-ga-trinity tde-i18n-gl-trinity
tde-i18n-he-trinity tde-i18n-hi-trinity tde-i18n-hr-trinity
tde-i18n-hu-trinity tde-i18n-is-trinity tde-i18n-it-trinity
tde-i18n-ja-trinity tde-i18n-kk-trinity tde-i18n-km-trinity
tde-i18n-ko-trinity tde-i18n-lt-trinity tde-i18n-lv-trinity
tde-i18n-mk-trinity tde-i18n-mn-trinity tde-i18n-ms-trinity
tde-i18n-nb-trinity tde-i18n-nds-trinity tde-i18n-nl-trinity
tde-i18n-nn-trinity tde-i18n-pa-trinity tde-i18n-pl-trinity
tde-i18n-pt-trinity tde-i18n-ptbr-trinity tde-i18n-ro-trinity
tde-i18n-ru-trinity tde-i18n-rw-trinity tde-i18n-se-trinity
tde-i18n-sk-trinity tde-i18n-sl-trinity tde-i18n-sr-trinity
tde-i18n-srlatin-trinity tde-i18n-ss-trinity tde-i18n-sv-trinity
tde-i18n-ta-trinity tde-i18n-te-trinity tde-i18n-tg-trinity
tde-i18n-th-trinity tde-i18n-tr-trinity tde-i18n-uk-trinity
tde-i18n-uz-trinity tde-i18n-uzcyrillic-trinity
tde-i18n-vi-trinity tde-i18n-wa-trinity tde-i18n-zhcn-trinity
tde-i18n-zhtw-trinity
Is there any way to upgrade without also downloading ALL of
these?!?! I am pretty sure I did not install earlier versions of
these packages.
IMO this should not happen. Can't you uninstall them?
Nik
> Bill