RE: Persona non grata
On 31-Oct-2000 guran remberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a newbie to Potato, and I want to get some programs off my computer.
>
> Is there a file that I can edit, and save to a removable media, that
> constitutes all allowed files.
>
> Ex: I removed emacs19, because I detest it. Used it on an ATARI 1040ST
> in the eighties, and concludeed that if there was a computer underneath
> - why not use it to tell me of the alternatives. To me a religieous and
> amish program.
> When I tried to socialize with dselect or apt-get, 80 MB was downloaded
> and I now have emacs20 and a bunch of other programs, but no
> spellchecking, which I was searching for.
>
if you remove them from dselect, it will not add them again. the dselect tries
to install all packages with priority standard, which emacs is. If you remove
it, dselect should not add it again.
Please, submit a wishlist bug on emacs, asking that it not be priority standard.
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