Re: Purging depends in cinnamon

[Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 03/03/2015 01:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Frank wrote:
> > I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation
> > which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number
> > of other programs.
> >
> > Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird
> > and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to
> > purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment.
>
> The usual suggestion is to use the 'equivs' package to create a local
> replacement package for iceweasl and the others.  The local package
> would provide the iceweasel name so that dpkg thinks they are
> installed but in reality it is simply an empty package holding the
> name.

//snip//


> Bob

 That's good to know Bob. I'll make a note of that for the
next time this might happen. As it is now, I allowed Aptitude
to remove all it wanted to and then re-installed one or
two packages.

Thanks

Frank