Edward C. Jones said... > I installed stable (3.1) and got a mix of KDE and Gnome. I removed most > of Gnome and upgraded (easily!) to unstable. I still get the mix. Why > are KDE and Gnome mixed together? Where is this mix and its > configuration documented? Why was this done?
I guess that you selected the "Desktop" option when installing - like most folk do. I believe that this installs both the 'kde' and 'gnome' meta packages. These both pull in a bunch of other meta packages, and these, in turn,.... If you uninstall random packages using other than aptitude - a really good tool via the command line, imo, though I can't deal with the curses version - then the dependent packages may well not be removed. This can lead to a bit of a mess. One way to sort it is to do: # aptitude purge kde gnome then # aptitude install kde-core gnome-core (or gnome-desktop-environment) then add the meta packages and packages that you need. (You can find the next level via: aptitude show kde, etc.) If there is a tool to show the packages recursively loaded by any meta package, then I'd also like to see it. As it is, I keep my own list. This could all be done easily in a graphic tool with expanding trees - curses aptitude is not close to that, imo. Instead, we have a lot of tools that seemingly do the same thing, but slightly differently and it's not at all clear which does what - even if you do read every bit of documentation and google for a day or so. Technically, this is called: a bit of a mess! -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
