In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wrote: >Without, that is, installing every package in Debian. > >I'm curious, for instance, as to why emacs20 hasn't managed to be removed >yet. Presumably something depends on it. But I can't figure out what.
Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sledge:~$ apt-cache showpkg emacs20 >Package: emacs20 >Versions: >20.7-13.1(/var/lib/apt/lists/_mirror_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status) > >Reverse Depends: ... Thanks, Steve. I discovered upon manual examination of the apt lists for that long list of reverse depends that most of them had an alternative for emacs20. The following didn't: w3-el-e20: This and the corresponding w3-doc-e20 and w3-lisp-e20 are emacs20-specific; there's a different package for the emacs21 version. So these should be removed along with, or before, emacs20. All reverse depends have appropriate alternatives. eshell, speedbar: These are emacs20 specific, since they're included in emacs21 and xemacs21. So these should be removed along with, or before, emacs20. No outside reverse depends. emacs20-el: Same source as emacs20. No reverse depends. Accordingly, I don't see any real obstacles. Unless of course I'm missing some architecture-specific non-i386 package. But the packages mentioned above do need to be removed too. -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
