also sprach Joakim Hove <j.hove@online.no> [2003.01.27.1258 +0100]: > 1. Say (for instance) I want to remove kde completely from my box, if > I then try for instance: > > bash% dpkg -P kdelibs3 > > there is no end to the failing dependencies, and not is > removed. Is it possible to "turn this around", and say: "remove > kdelibs3 *and* all the packages which will depend on this > package"? That would be a very potent (and dangerous probably) way > of removing things! Of course there is. Either you should just use aptitude as a really cool graphical frontend with a very smooth learning curve, and with all possibilities, or you use apt-get: apt-get remove --purge kdelibs3 > 2. I have read that the debian packages do not contain version > numbers from the packaged software. However for instance emacs > exists as both emacs20 and emacs21 packages, does that imply that > to debians packagesystem these two packages are *completely > unrelated*, and as a corollary there is no (debian) ugrade route > from the 20.xx versions of emacs to the 21.xx versions? Correct. I don't know why. It always struck me as really ugly. Then again I never really cared for emacs anyway. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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