-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >>> I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I >>> can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely >>> horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this >>> box and do a clean install of X (not of Debian itself, just of >>> the X Window System bits). >>> >>> Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude >>> (command-line and menu) fight me. I keep telling it to purge all >>> of the X11 system and it keeps saying that'll break things so >>> let's update things instead. NO!!! I want to PURGE the thing!!! >> That's your problem. aptitude sucks. >> > Care to qualify that? IME, aptitude is the single best package > management front end. I say this as someone who was a diehard dselect > user in the beginning of my experience with Debian.
- From Kent's original post: aptitude (command-line and menu) fight me. I keep telling it to purge all of the X11 system and it keeps saying that'll break things so let's update things instead. NO!!! I want to PURGE the thing!!! apt-get does what you tell it to do. aptitude does what it thinks is best. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7dFuS9HxQb37XmcRAiUuAKDEIH9YL9iKRovBN0+zQyPzoHDXLQCeMDTw LlLFYk5srlmqCA5YbESPl1c= =UuKj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]