On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:33:50AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> was heard to say: > "Arthur H. Edwards" <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil> writes: > > > First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't > > be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install individual > > packages and waste a fair amount of time. Government computers are a > > fairly large group and I would think that you might want to facilitate > > the use of Linux and of Debian on them by swapping the dependency. If > > not you will be telling each of us to embark on a Rube Goldberg > > installation process. > > Removing the "gnome" package does not cause you to remove the > individual packages it depended on. It does if you're using aptitude; you'd have to do something like "aptitude keep ~Rdepends:^gnome$". (but not if you're using experimental, 'cos that'll send it into an infinite memory-eating loop...great, another bug to fix) Daniel
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