Re: Remove Evolution
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 02:42:40PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 20:14:49 -040
> > I use aptitude from my shell, just not interactively. ;)
> >
>
> Here's a tip I discovered yesterday, after having yet another go at
> making sense of the idiocies it was proposing. I use LibreOffice, for
> example, but it wanted to install OpenOffice, some of a total of 125 new
> packages I neither want nor need.
>
> If you've never actually used aptitude interactively in anger, your New
> Packages number may be large, possibly tens of thousands, and this
> appears to be the source of its insanity. Go to the Action menu, and
> Forget New Packages. Suddenly, my aptitude was sane and got on with the
> job in hand, which was just as well as a new Synaptic had started
> freezing X, and I really wasn't keen on fixing the current log-jam with
> apt-get. This is sid, by the way, which is currently an interesting
> place to be.
I bet -- Used to run SID myself once upon a time. Thanks for the tip. :)
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