Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [very entertaining discussion snipped]
> the "automatically remove unused packages" option. When in doubt, run > "aptitude install -sf", check what it wants to do and smack it over the > head with "keep-all" if you do not like what you see. (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude install -sf [snip] The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: xmms The following packages will be REMOVED: afio bogofilter gkrellmms gkrellweather irssi-text kernel-package libcanlock2 libgsl0 most ntp ntp-server ntp-simple rxvt slrn zsh 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 16 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 24.5MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. Some of those are my favourite programs. [BTW, I haven't done any keep-all's or anything here. I'm just trying to learn from the discussion.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
