On Wed, Dec 23 2015,Udyant Wig wrote: > On 12/23/2015 12:15 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: >> >> I installed TexLive recently and during one of the upgrades, the >> entire texdoc package got installed too. that is humoungous and I'd >> like to remove the doc packages alone and also stop future installs of >> the same type whenever I Upgrade TexLive. > > An appreciable problem. > > # To remove all installed packages with `texlive' and `doc' in their > # names: > # aptitude remove '~i~ntexlive~ndoc' > > # To prevent these packages from getting installed later: > # aptitude hold '~ntexlive~ndoc'
Thanks for that. I shall try it out and report my progress on the same [snipped 6 lines] >> sivaram >> -- > > Minor note: I do not recall seeing signatures like yours. > That's true because I'm using Gnus and I've not got around to correcting the initial blank in the config file sivaram --