Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-28 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Robin wrote: On 27/02/2008, *Daniel Burrows* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:17:50PM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I occasionally even get emails from people who say they use aptitude over other package managers because of this feature, despite the fact that the version of Debian they're running includes my

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Robin
On 27/02/2008, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Robin
On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:05:29PM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under Options/Dependency Handling by disabling Remove unused packages automatically, or add

re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively. -- To

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-26 Thread Robin
On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to have a possibility of

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
synaptic and orca don't play well together last I had heard. If I can get the graphical user interface coming up and log in successfully I'll be able to do more. For now it's close to working but not there yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
Try this: update-rc.d gdm stop 99 2 3 4 5 Regards, Andrei On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 04:30:26PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome environment. I think I may just rename gdm to something