On Sunday 28 December 2014 01:46:29 Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Alexandre wrote:
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:19:20 -0800 From: dan@homestead-products.com To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Subject: Re: [trinity-users] removing games and other cruff.
On 12/26/2014 11:32 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
I thought I'd try purging them the so-called easy way using kpackage but when I get set to remove kdegames-trinity, it _looks_ like tde-trinity will go along it. I know this has to do with 'meta-packages' but I don't understand the implications.
What I do is, first make sure there are no autoremovable packages. Then remove the metapackage. Then look at the packages that are now autoremovable, and mark anything you want to keep as manually installed. Then autoremove the rest.
Hi,
If you want to use Synaptic, it will tell you which package would be removed if you proceed to remove the metapackage. If it makes sense for you, click on okay and if it wants to remove tons of packages, then something went wrong in packaging...
I'd rather not use synaptic actually but I'll have a look. kpackage showed the same set of dependencies on metapackages that was the reason for my question.
aptitude gives you the same information and the chance to alter it. So, no doubt, does apt-get.
It isn't that "something went wrong in packaging". It is that it and you don't agree! But you can get round it as others have suggested.
Though, I must say it does seem odd that TDE should depend on kdegames!!!
Lisi
I think I have the answer to the question now though. plus now if something goes wrong, I can blame you guys!
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F.
Hope it helps! -Alexandre