Etch w/o icedove
I have Etch installed and have been keeping it up to date with
occaisional updates using aptitude. I decided to see what it would want
to do if I asked for a dist-upgrade. The answere -- it wants to install
icedove. I do not need icedove. I have the upstream firefox 2.0
installed. I also have Debian's 1.5.x package installed, but I am using
the upstream 2.0. I certainly have no need for icedove. I have tried
'aptitude hold icedove' 'aptitude hold firefox' but neither made any
difference. I then tried 'echo icedove hold | dpkg --set-selections'
and 'echo firefox hold | dpkg --set-selections' still with no change.
I am quite happy with the firefox that I have and do not want to change
that.
Is it possible to maintain a fully up-to-date Etch without installing
icedove?
--
Marc Shapiro
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What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
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