On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800 "Michael M. Moore" <mich...@writemoore.net> wrote:
> I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost. > > I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed > gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole > bunch of other things. I also removed evolution. > > But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages > I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they > are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might be keeping them > installed, but when I selected that for removal, several packages I want > to keep (for example, quodlibet, which is not marked as automatically > installed and does not depend gconf2) were also marked for deletion. I > don't understand why that would be. > > Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed > and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the > packages that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought > I might be missing something obvious about the best way to take care of > getting rid of a bunch of automatically installed packages relatively > quickly. > > Any advice? Try 'aptitude why some-package', and follow it up the chain of packages. If there's indeed one package keeping in a bunch of others, you should encounter it fairly quickly. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org