Removing Helix libgtk1.2

[Glyn Millington <glyn@mill29.fsnet.co.uk>]

A while back I toyed with the Helix version of Gnome - bad decision.
Have since been weeding out the Helix packagaes that cause all kinds of
crossed wires in normal debian upgrades.  

I've found that I still have the Helix libgtk1.2 - but a simple 

dpkg --purge libgtk1.2 wants to take about 30 (normal debian)packages with
it!

Is there a neat way of removing the Helix package and replacing it with
the debian version of libgtk1.2 without stripping out and re-installing
half my favourite programmes?

Any help much appreciated.


Glyn
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