On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:31, Ryo Furue wrote: > Thank you all who responded! > > | 1. Start aptitude. > | 2. Select the package "kde". > | 3. Navigate through it (press enter), and mark as _manually_ > | installed (press lowercase "m"), all the packages you really > | want. That could be all the packages, except kde-amusements. > > Thanks. I understand that this is the "proper" way to achive > my goal. However, the problem is that I don't know which KDE > packages I want. All I know is that I do NOT want kde-amusements. So you actually do know which packages you want: All of them that KDE installed for you except kde-amusements. > Anyway, does this mean that there's no easy way to remove > only the "amusements" part of KDE? There is, see above. > Basically, what I need > is to tell aptitude that "I know `kde' depends on `kde-amusements', > but please remove it and its dependencies and please ignore > the unmet dependency in `kde'". . . Not possible. It's all or nothing with virtual packages. Use the "kde" package as a reference to keep the packages "kde" depends on, except kde-amusements. If you use aptitude, this is a snap. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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