On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:50:45PM +0300, Eugen Rahaian wrote: > > Hi, > I did it. I removed gnome-desktop-environment. The gnome package was > removed also. > After this, I used aptitude to see what happened, and I found all that 50+ > packages scheduled for deletion. They all had the automatic flag on. So, I > had to check most of them and 'keep' them (command ':'). > Hi Eugen, if you apt-get install gnome-core, that should fix the problem. > The result is that I was able to remove evolution and rhythmbox packages. I > still have evolution-data-server, a big 9MB package because it seems that > gnome meeting depends on it. > > Considering that there is no real dependency between Gnome and Evolution, the 'gnome' packages is just a package that depends upon the full gnome desktop files including the extras. the 'gnome-core' is like the 'gnome' package but does not depends upon all of the extra things like evolution and other things. > this procedure was not a simple way to remove the mail client. Also I had > to give up to those meta-packages which may have some usefulness that I > lost. You can with the equivs package create a custom metapackages to suite your needs. See the debian-mentors mailing list at lists.debian.org. otherwise, just install the gnome-core and rememeber to keep the other gnome things uptodate by hand. > > Due to the package management, Evolution seems to be more integrated than > it really is. Most folks who use gnome as a desktop use evo. I have gnome but do not and just leave it installed to avoid this hassle to remove it. Its a few MB of stuff which for most hard drives is not much space. > > As I understand these meta-packages are normal empty packages. Maybe they > should be more flexible, in a way to allow differentiating between a real > dependency and an association of packages. see above comment on equivs. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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