On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:56:19PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:14:39PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > > OR, preferably, remove the startup links with > > > > > > update-rc.d -f wwwoffle remove > > > > > > The second approach at least allows you to stop or start wwwoffle > > > manually. > > > > Well, the update-rc.d man page says that this will only work if > > /etc/init.d/wwwoffle has also been removed. > > The -f switch to update-rc.d, as supplied above, overrides this sanity > check.
Oops, sorry. I should have RTWFM (whole). > > And why can't we uninstall it without also uninstalling > > task-dialup (via apt-get remove)? Does anyone have any > > advice on this? > > The dialup task includes wwwoffle, and therefore task-dialup depends on > it. Removing the task-dialup package is harmless. The confusion you're > experiencing here is one of the reasons why, in woody, tasks are no > longer managed with packages and dependencies in this way. But task-dialup contains ppp, fetchmail, anacron.... I was afraid that un-installing task-dialup would also uninstall those. But I was misunderstanding the dependencies, I guess. task-dialup depends on them, not the other way around. Still, shouldn't uninstalling task-dialup also uninstall them? Imagine uninstalling task-dialup, hoping to do the inverse of install task-dialup. I guess that is the confusion you are talking about. As for woody, I have it on order, awaiting its arrival with baited breath! Thank you for your patient understandable response. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome to the GNU age! http://www.gnu.org
