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Re: Etch w/o icedove



On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:13:16PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> 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.

icedove is the thunderbird package; firefox is packaged as iceweasel.
-- 
Rob

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