. . . i'm reminded that running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade isn't done until it has been invoked twice with a "no packages to upgrade" message. it works in fits and starts until then.

and i'm noticing the downloading of thousands of packages that i do not use and will never use. yes, i use some gnome applications. no, i do not now run nor have i ever willingly run the gnome desktop, nor unity, nor kde-post-3x. surely i don't need the whole damned things in order to use a few applications. i understand an s-load of libraries and such, but my favoring synaptic doesn't imply my need to 40mb of gnome wallpapers. and, fact is, for the few gnome applications i run, i'd far rather have stock TDE furniture (crollbars, etc.) than the silly crap the gnomes think is oh, so cute (possibly because they've never used a computer to do actual work). okay, end of rant.

grrr. -- dep

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