On 2015-12-23 at 09:55, Udyant Wig wrote: > 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' Does this latter actually work? I would expect it to use the same hold mechanism as 'apt-mark hold' or 'echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-selections', and in my experience holding a package as not installed does not work; it doesn't even get recorded in the package-selection state, and certainly doesn't get respected later when another package Depends or Recommends that package. If that's been changed, or if there's a mechanism which avoids it and does work, I'd be very interested. >> sivaram >> -- > > Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours. The standard for signature delimiters is a line consisting of '-- ', as the first line of the signature block. Software which knows what it's doing will see this line and treat whatever comes after it specially - for example, leave it out when quoting a message for reply. If what he(?) really wants to do is treat his name as part of the post and any (un-snipped? bottom-quoted?) text below that as special, then his current signature delimiter is _almost_ correct - the "almost" being because he has a space before the '--' as well as after, so the delimiter won't be recognized by most software. If he's aiming for a normal signature delimiter, however, he does indeed have it slightly wrong. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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