How to allow the removal of emacs20
In article <[🔎] 20031117233352.GA13698@twcny.rr.com> I wrote:
>Without, that is, installing every package in Debian.
>
>I'm curious, for instance, as to why emacs20 hasn't managed to be removed
>yet. Presumably something depends on it. But I can't figure out what.
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>sledge:~$ apt-cache showpkg emacs20
>Package: emacs20
>Versions:
>20.7-13.1(/var/lib/apt/lists/_mirror_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
>
>Reverse Depends:
...
Thanks, Steve.
I discovered upon manual examination of the apt lists for that long list
of reverse depends that most of them had an alternative for emacs20. The
following didn't:
w3-el-e20: This and the corresponding w3-doc-e20 and w3-lisp-e20 are
emacs20-specific; there's a different package for the emacs21 version.
So these should be removed along with, or before, emacs20. All reverse
depends have appropriate alternatives.
eshell, speedbar: These are emacs20 specific, since they're included in
emacs21 and xemacs21. So these should be removed along with, or before,
emacs20. No outside reverse depends.
emacs20-el: Same source as emacs20. No reverse depends.
Accordingly, I don't see any real obstacles. Unless of course I'm missing
some architecture-specific non-i386 package. But the packages mentioned
above do need to be removed too.
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org>
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
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