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Re: Was: Ric Moore



Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> writes:

> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine
> And Gene did reply:
>> Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> writes:
>> > On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine
>> > 
>> >> I don't have Gnome on the workstation either, but
>> >> I do have various Gnome bits such as Nautilus. It really should be
>> >> possible to avoid NM, but probably not without some effort.
>> > 
>> > Using information that it seems to me, is deliberately withheld from
>> > the user.  Or I have not learned in 80 years, how to ask the right
>> > question..
>> 
>> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me.
>> 
>> Mart
>
> I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years.  The list 
> of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed pages, IF you 
> could actually get a printout.

Eh, no?

mvdwege@gaheris:~$ apt-cache rdepends network-manager | wc -l
40

And that includes all packages for which nm is a dependency, not just
a hard Depends: *and* i386 packages (I run multi-arch).

And note that that this is an rdepends search. I have only 4 of those 40
packages installed (and 2 of those only by accident).

And taking a look at the list, there's a lot of non-essential stuff on
there. About the only thing I'd consider anything near 'essential' is
evolution, and that is only a Suggests: dependency.


> Unfortunately, you can't even copy/paste for a record from that screen
> by any method but a screen snapshot series.
>
What is so difficult about 'select text, middle button paste'?

I really wanted to cut you some slack, but I am forced to conclude that
your problem is between the chair and the keyboard.

Mart

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    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.


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