Re: Remove Evolution
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the
> > > meta-package as manually installed, that is, faking that you installed
> > > them explicitly Aptitude is able to do that with its powerful search
> > > functions:
> > >
> > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)'
> > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-core) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-core)'
> > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-desktop-environment) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome-desktop-environment)'
> > >
> > > This works for me to purge Evolution without removing other needed
> > > software.
> >
> > Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of
> > day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the
> > running of gnome-shell. Note to self: Don't do work late in the day.
>
> I have never used aptitude but thought a command like
>
> aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)'
>
> might appeal; I'm impressed with its succinctness. On the other hand,
> provided a user is aware that setting packages to manually installed is
> sensible for his task, it seems using aptitude interactively is very
> neat and possibly more accessible.
>
> Doing the same thing with apt involves a lttle more thought. My paltry
> attempt is:
>
> apt-cache depends --installed gnome | cut -d ':' -f2 | xargs apt-mark manual
>
> There might be more tweaking to be done.
>
> Glad you solved your problem.
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You know your stuff. I've just never got the hang of using aptitude in
interactive mode, even with most people considering that it's *easier*.
Go figure. :)
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