Re: removing TexLive Docs packages

[Udyant Wig <udyantw@gmail.com>]

On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>
> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the
> entire texdoc package got installed too.  that is humoungous and I'd
> like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of
> the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLive.

  An appreciable problem.

  # To remove all installed packages with `texlive' and `doc' in their
  # names:
  # aptitude remove '~i~ntexlive~ndoc'

  # To prevent these packages from getting installed later:
  # aptitude hold '~ntexlive~ndoc'

> Could someone please suggest a way?  I'm on debian test release, if
> that is of any help.

  I hope the above helps.

>  sivaram
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  Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours.

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