On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 13:07, Ian R. Meinzen wrote: > I am currently running sarge with both KDE and Gnome installed. I'd > like to remove the games from my system (*WAY* too much temptation for > someone who is already far enough behind), but I noticed that the kde > and gnome-desktop-environment packages depend on the games packages. Is > there a way to force this dependency off? I'd hate to have a bunch of > broken dpendencies lying around. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Ian > -- > Ian R. Meinzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, I don't use gnome, nor do I have it installed, so I can't comment on what is going on there. What is going on in kde is that the kde package is a metapackage. It exists so that you can run apt-get install kde and get all of kde. From your point of view, this is could because you can get rid of it and nothing will go wrong. a handy hint about this is here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kde Package: kde Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 40 Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Source: meta-kde Version: 5:42 Depends: kde-core, kde-amusements, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdeutils, kdewebdev Suggests: kde-i18n, x-window-system-core Filename: pool/main/m/meta-kde/kde_42_all.deb Size: 7068 MD5sum: 53b4516d7c017ff8cb65ebc38984ed2b Description: The K Desktop Environment A metapackage containing dependencies for the official suite of KDE including arts, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdebase, kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdelibs, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdetoys, kdeutils, and quanta. . Does not contain depends for Development packages. Task: desktop it is worth noting that removing kdegames will not remove the games, just the meta package. What you want to do is remove everything in the depends line below: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kdegames Package: kdegames Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 4:3.3.1-1 Depends: atlantik (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kasteroids (>= 4:3.3.1-1), katomic (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kbackgammon (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kbattleship (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kblackbox (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kbounce (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kenolaba (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kfouleggs (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kgoldrunner (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kjumpingcube (>= 4:3.3.1-1), klickety (>=4:3.3.1-1), klines (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kmahjongg (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kmines (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kolf (>= 4:3.3.1-1), konquest (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kpat (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kpoker (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kreversi (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ksame (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kshisen (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ksirtet (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ksmiletris (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ksnake (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ksokoban (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kspaceduel (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ktron (>= 4:3.3.1-1), ktuberling (>= 4:3.3.1-1), kwin4 (>= 4:3.3.1-1), lskat (>= 4:3.3.1-1) Suggests: kdegames-doc-html (>= 4:3.3.1-1) Filename: pool/main/k/kdegames/kdegames_3.3.1-1_all.deb Size: 13220 MD5sum: 52a4625636aa4df6142cc9c673cee39e Description: KDE Games metapackage This is an empty package which depends on the current version of every game in the kdegames distribution. If you are feeling clever, you could do this in a line of shell, but I leave that to you. Peter Nuttall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
