On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:04:09AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > lee writes: > > In any case, it would be nice to have a working KDE without having to run > > a mysql server. Is there a way to do that? > > That depends on how you define "working KDE". The KDE metapackage depends > on packages that depend on mysql-server. Most KDE packages do not depend > on mysql-server. You should be able to install KDE, remove mysql-server, > and allow the packages to depend it to be removed as well.
That's sort of what I did, i. e. KDE was installed before the last update. Aptitude couldn't seem to solve some dependency problems and finally removed packages I would have wanted to keep but that I could do without with. It let it install mysql-server during the update because I thought it would be easier to let it do one step after another. After the update, I removed mysql-server and the packages depending on it, and now KDE doesn't work anymore: kdm says there's no greating widget and I should check the configuration when it starts. > On the other > hand, you could just install the packages you need. KDE is just a bunch of > packages that the KDE maintainers think go together. It's already clear > that you don't agree with them. Yeah, I know, but it was too late for that even before the upgrade. And removing the kde metapackage doesn't remove any of the kde packages that it had installed, so I can't uninstall kde easily. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org