Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:22:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and then

kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Wim De Smet
hi, recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is dependent on all of them. Is this a bug? I can't believe

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2003-02-14 às 12:42, Wim De Smet escreveu: hi, recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even kde-base-doc. kde is

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:07:51 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron, everything

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? Jeff

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Jeff Elkins writes: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? Unfortunately, yes (though the dependency list in the KDE package will tell you what to remove). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 14/02/03 Jeff Elkins did speaketh: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase something

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the package kde. How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:10 am, Michael P. Soulier wrote: If apt is working properly, you should be able to remove a base package that all of kde depends on. apt-get --purge remove kdebase Thanks Mike! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Remove the basic libraries and watch the dependencies sort it out? Is there a case for introducing that kind of

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:08:03PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Remove the basic libraries and watch the

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? Surely, you don't have to apt-get remove each package? Easiest way is to either run debfoster, or purge Qt and then clean up with deborphan -Pa Also, kinda wondering why the default