On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:31:59PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-05-03, Brian Nelson penned: > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Ah, yes. I've run into that kind of obnoxiousness before. > >> > >> I think the "right" thing to do here would be to mark all the > >> kde-related packages as being "manually" installed, or at least > >> some key subset. AIUI, that will promote them to first-class > >> citizens of aptitude-land. But when I ran into the problem, I > >> don't think I knew about that. > > > > The right thing to do is to kill the huge meta-packages like 'kde' > > since they are an ugly kludge and an abuse of the packaging system. > > Are you saying that tasks in general are an abuse of the packaging > system?
No, tasks are fine. If 'kde' were a task and not a meta-package there wouldn't be so many problems with it. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
