Re: Removing Helix packages

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> > Well, for some stupid reason, I decided to give the
> > Gnome packages from Helix a try. After re-starting
> > X-Windows, I noticed that my Eterms don't have
> > scrollbars and scroll-arrows. My first assumption
> > is that it's related to Helix's version of the various
> > imlib packages. Now though, I can't remove them,
> > at least without removing a bunch of other packages
> > that depend on them.
> >
> > I've tried different "--ignore-depends=???" options,
> > "--force", etc with no luck. I'm sure there is a way to
> > force the removal of *just* the items I specify, isn't
> > there ?? If so, could someone explain ??
>
> apt-get --purge remove \*helix\*
>
>
> follow the prompts... it may remove more thna you bargained for so
maybe
> doing this without --purge may be a better choice..

Yes, it did want to remove a lot more than I wanted to mess with.
Literally, every gnome package that I had installed would have been
removed.

So, I ended up grabbing Eterm from CVS, along with it's req'd libraries
(libast, imlib2, etc). It's all working fine now.

Thanks
Hall