On 6 May 2011 06:08, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:21:22PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > > For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with > > > LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other > > > packages it just results in disaster, for example Ive tried removing > > > the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS. > > > > How is that? Empathy is just an IM client, it should be easily > > removable :-? > > The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on > empathy. As with many of these "all encomapssing" meta packages you are > usually better off picking just the subset of packages that you actually > want. >
This is what I normally do, then use fluxbox or openbox for a smaller installation. Installing 'just what you want' drags in required dependencies but can lead, sometimes, to a little instability I have found. Installing one or two other related packages normally stabilises the situation though. Regards, Weaver. -- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion.
