Re: Customising Debian install
On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:08:05 +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:21:22PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
>
>> > For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with
>> > LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other
>> > packages it just results in disaster, for example Ive tried removing
>> > the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS.
>>
>> How is that? Empathy is just an IM client, it should be easily
>> removable :-?
>
> The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on
> empathy. As with many of these "all encomapssing" meta packages you are
> usually better off picking just the subset of packages that you actually
> want.
Ugh... very true, at least for squeeze onwards :-(
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-desktop-environment
Then better install "gnome-core", right?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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