Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> writes: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:22:02 -0500 > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Hello Harry, > >> Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> writes: >> > Which is known as a meta package. It's a shorthand way of pulling in >> > (in this case) lots of other packages. The full KDE suite, in >> > fact. >> OK, I was alarmed to see: >> dpkg -L kde-full >> /usr >> /usr/share >> /usr/share/doc >> /usr/share/doc/kde-full >> /usr/share/doc/kde-full/changelog.gz >> /usr/share/doc/kde-full/copyright >> Not much to work with there. > > True. The 'meat' though, is what kde-full depends on. It's a whole > load of stuff. Most people will probably never use it all. IMO, it's > far simpler to install the packages you want, which will pull in any > necessary dependencies.
How do you suggest I proceed then? Try to remove KDE-full and start over with smaller packages? If so which are the necessary ones to have a functioning desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrcd7q1l....@newsguy.com
