Re: removing TexLive Docs packages
On Wed, Dec 23 2015,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'
Thanks for that. I shall try it out and report my progress on the same
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>> sivaram
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>
> Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours.
>
That's true because I'm using Gnus and I've not got around to
correcting the initial blank in the config file
sivaram
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