On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 1:26:25 PM CEST Shawn Sörbom wrote: > On Monday, June 19, 2017 11:24:59 PM PDT inkbottle wrote: > > task-kde-desktop depends on kde-standard > > which depends on plasma-desktop > > which depends on kde-baseapps > > which depends on konqueror > > which depends on tons of difficult to understand seemingly outdated > > dependencies. > > > > The upgrade is very difficult > > > > In fact I give up the upgrade altogether. > > I'll have to come to it through another angle: > > There are tons of packages which I deem old and unnecessary, and I find no > > simple way not to install them. > > > > And there is no simple way not to install konqueror. > > > > Chris > > > > PS: Also aptitude put all automatically installed packages to satisfy > > dependencies in manually installed: hundreds of them. > > > > It is a very difficult upgrade. > > If you download the meta-package source for kde-baseapps, you could remove > the konqueror dependency from the control file, bump the version number, > and repack it. I know this isn't ideal, but if you are willing to invest > time in the task, it is doable.
That looks like fun: I did thought of something like that myself. Plus, it would be a good exercise in packaging 101. So far I unfortunately failed doing anything good in the debian packaging department. There should be more tutorials about the bases of packaging, or I just haven't found them. For the concern of the aforementioned upgrade, the person for whom I did it seems to find it simply beautiful (and "blue", don't ask...); and everything is working seamlessly. As for myself, I really should learn packaging. > Good luck, > --Shawn
