On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I know you cannot remove a package with it, because its interpretation of > dependencies will leave you with an unbootable, destroyed system. Its > done that to me several times already.
I remove packages with aptitude all the time and have no problem with that. You can remove packages with apt if aptitude isn't working for you. > So when do we get a default, just works, does _only_ what you ask it to, > text/ncurses based package manager with a bare bones arm64 install? > Something you can actually build a working system with? For me, aptitude is exactly that, except I have no arm64 hardware, but aptitude isn't any different on different architectures, except it is of course slower on slower disks and CPUs. I think you might be better suited by a few things: Choose one environment instead of two. Use a light-weight WM like openbox instead of a desktop. Turn off recommends in your apt configuration to reduce the size of the image. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99recommends: APT::Install-Recommends "false"; Build the rootfs on a fast SSD/HD (or tmpfs if you have enough RAM) with a fast CPU. One way would be on amd64 using qemu-debootstrap from qemu-user-static and then write the completed rootfs to your SD card. Start with the --variant=minbase option for debootstrap to ensure only the minimal is initially installed. > While I am up on my soapbox about this, that set of html docs on aptitude > someone pointed me at, is that available in a printable pdf? Link plz if > it is. Doesn't look like it. You could file a bug against aptitude-doc-en. https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#aptitude https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/aptitude-doc-en/filelist -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
