On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:02:29PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 07/25/2018 02:00 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> > > I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a
> > > user could mark packages "never install".
>
> Anyone remember "File Cabinet" for Win3.1? It didn't get easier t
On 07/25/2018 02:00 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote:
I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a
user could mark packages "never install".
Anyone remember "File Cabinet" for Win3.1? It didn't get easier than
that! Ric
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My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are
> I wonder if it would be nice for apt to have a feature so that a
> user could mark packages "never install".
That feature is APT pinning. You can achieve "never install" by
creating a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d,
e.g. /etc/apt/preferences.d/local-blacklist, containing something like
Package:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:49:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
[ re pulseaudio ]
No, it's not a dependency, but it's just one more thing to have to
deal with, picking over which Recommends make a lot of sense to
install and which don't; hence the warning.
Apparently Endless¹ implemented a "recom
On Tue 24 Jul 2018 at 10:45:23 (+0100), Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:04:39PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >Without intending any criticism of the suggestion, particularly for
> >this use case where a DE might be assumed, it looks very heavy on
> >dependencies. On my system,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 01:04:39PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
Without intending any criticism of the suggestion, particularly for
this use case where a DE might be assumed, it looks very heavy on
dependencies. On my system, it would require 90 packages minimum:
Well, as you point out, one's mil
On 07/22/18 14:26, Leandro Noferini wrote:
Ciao a tutti,
some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects with
some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look to base
in libreoffice suite but it looks too difficult to use and to mantain.
Is there something easie
On Sun 22 Jul 2018 at 19:14:40 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2018-07-22 at 17:26, Leandro Noferini wrote:
>
> > Ciao a tutti,
> >
> > some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects
> > with some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look
> > to base in libre
On 2018-07-22 at 17:26, Leandro Noferini wrote:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects
> with some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look
> to base in libreoffice suite but it looks too difficult to use and to
> mantain.
>
> Is t
On 23/07/18 09:26, Leandro Noferini wrote:
Ciao a tutti,
some friends with no computing skills need to catalog some objects with
some features like components, costs and images. I gave a look to base
in libreoffice suite but it looks too difficult to use and to mantain.
Is there something easier
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