[sorry for the broken thread - only saw John's message in the archives] John Hasler writes:
>x-window-system is a dummy package which serves no purpose once the >packages it depends on are installed. Remove it. >Apt won't reinstall it if it has been removed. Ah, thanks John. That's the key bit of info that I was missing. I didn't think about dummy packages only existing for installation. I thought they were only packages with dependencies, yet still real packages that were upgraded and removing would thus remove all their depends. Thanks. # apt-get remove xdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: x-window-system xdm 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 811kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 47940 files and directories currently installed.) Removing x-window-system ... Removing xdm ... dpkg - warning: while removing xdm, directory `/etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps' not empty so not removed. dpkg - warning: while removing xdm, directory `/etc/X11/xdm' not empty so not removed. Why does that happen? All of the files in those directories have the same timestamp. # dpkg -l xdm Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===================-===================-====================================================== rc xdm 4.2.1-3 X display manager -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
