Gah. No, it is not possible to simply remove the 'gnome' meta-package as this removes (at the next full-upgrade) a _number_ of other useful packages like e.g. update-manager and several others.
Marking these packages as "manually installed" to avoid this is _not_ an acceptable solution as it means future changes wrt. what a "gnome desktop" means and "contains" will not be kept in sync. I have a very hard time seeing why line 36 in debain/control.in cannot be changed to: tomboy (>= 1.0) [!mips !mipsel !alpha !hppa] | gnote, *getting sick and tired of patching the gnome meta-package manually* -- Lars Rune Nøstdal http://www.nostdal.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org