On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:25:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 24 May 2013 at 07:26:57 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:11:13AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Well, there is a solution: marking all the dependencies of the > > > meta-package as manually installed, that is, faking that you installed > > > them explicitly Aptitude is able to do that with its powerful search > > > functions: > > > > > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | > > > ?reverse-recommends(gnome)' > > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-core) | > > > ?reverse-recommends(gnome-core)' > > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome-desktop-environment) | > > > ?reverse-recommends(gnome-desktop-environment)' > > > > > > This works for me to purge Evolution without removing other needed > > > software. > > > > Thanks for your effort to help me, mucho appreciated! In the light of > > day the packages it was going to remove were non-essential in the > > running of gnome-shell. Note to self: Don't do work late in the day. > > I have never used aptitude but thought a command like > > aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(gnome) | ?reverse-recommends(gnome)' > > might appeal; I'm impressed with its succinctness. On the other hand, > provided a user is aware that setting packages to manually installed is > sensible for his task, it seems using aptitude interactively is very > neat and possibly more accessible. > > Doing the same thing with apt involves a lttle more thought. My paltry > attempt is: > > apt-cache depends --installed gnome | cut -d ':' -f2 | xargs apt-mark > manual > > There might be more tweaking to be done. > > Glad you solved your problem. ---end quoted text---
You know your stuff. I've just never got the hang of using aptitude in interactive mode, even with most people considering that it's *easier*. Go figure. :) -- Cheers, Stephen, Toronto My Google+ Profile | http://goo.gl/JbQsq -- 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/20130525194944.ga11...@thunkpad.gateway.2wire.net
