On Ma, 06 aug 13, 18:15:37, Dom wrote: > On 06/08/13 17:26, Kyle Kuhn wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I wasn't sure where to start so I started here. > > > >I am developing my own Distro of Linux, and I am using Debian as a base. > >I am trying to remove all programs dependent on the X11-Common package > >without actually removing the X11-Common package. I am using the most > >recent Debian LTS. Is there a way APT can do this, or will I have to remove > >the x11-common package, then "#apt-get autoremove" and reinstall x11-common? > > You could use "apt-cache rdepends x11-common" to find all packages > that directly depend on x11-common, remove those which will take out > any packages that depend on them too and see what autoremove will > show as left.
Aptitude can do stuff like that in one shot. From memory (please do check the reference manual first) it should be something like: aptitude remove '?depends(x11-common)' Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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