On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:39:05PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > I'd like to install xorg, but only with the video drivers that I need. > I'm doing a net install.
Here's how I do it: First, I use aptitude interactively. If you haven't used aptitude before, then that's a separate project to do first. Aptitude gives you a curses interface similar to but more powerful than dselect. Aptitude keeps track of which packages were installed by you and which were installed to meet dependencies. So far, similiar to apt-get. However, when you remove a package that you installed, aptitude will remove anything that then doesn't have anything depending on it that was marked as automatic. Then, I go to the xorg meta-package. I scroll down to the things it depends on and I select them manually, and I dig down into the dependancies and adjust things. For example, somewhere there a package will depend on _either_ an -all package or a device-specific package. Left on its own, it will pull in the -all whereas I can mark the device spcific package for manual and deselect the -all. It sounds more complicated than it is. I'm comfortable with aptitude so its not. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
