blacklist packages in apt
Hi All,
I'm unsure if "blacklist" is even the correct terminology for what I
want to do, but at least it's a starting point.
I administer servers for a small company. If it was up to me I wouldn't
even have a gui on them, but the boss and developers come from the
Windows world and require a gui. So, I'm stuck with it.
What I would like to permanently get rid of are network-manager and
avahi-daemon. Is there a way of marking these packages with either apt
or dpkg so that they will not be reinstalled, ever? I've had problems
with these two packages being auto-reinstalled when doing apt-get
upgrades, and I just don't want to have mess with it anymore. I know
it is at least theoretically possible with apt-pinning by setting the
priority very low, but I've been looking at the man pages for apt-get
and dpkg and can see no way there of doing this without apt-pinning. Is
there another way and I've just missed it?
I would just as soon not use apt-pinning if I don't have to, but if
that's what I must do, I'll use it.
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