On Wed 12 Oct 2011 at 15:52:48 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Does it require a complete start over? > > Here is the kind of confusing mess I run into: > > sudo aptitude remove xserver-xorg-video-all > The following packages will be REMOVED: > xserver-xorg-video-all
[Snip] > Looks pretty straight forward, but look what happens when I accept: [Another snip] > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 59 to remove and 22 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 241 MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > Doesn't this seem just a tab bit heavy handed. At first sight, maybe, but look at it like this: you asked task-destop to do a job for you because you didn't want to think through how to achieve a particular end. It did it superbly well, pulling in all the dependencies automatically to satisfy the task. Now you want to purge/remove task-destop so it reverses the process it originally initiated. If those packages had been manually installed (that is, you had explicitly got them) then task-desktop would have no rights to do anything to them. Solution to your problem: mark the packages as having been manually installed. I don't use aptitude but believe it is capable of doing it. -- 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/20111012225555.GP23580@desktop
