Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ apt-cache show mozilla > Description: Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package > This is a dummy package that depends on the main components of the > mozilla web browser. It is here to ease upgrades, installations, and > provide a consistent upgrade path from previous versions. > It can safely be removed with no ill effects. > > I see, it is one of those packages of yore, still around after > having done whatever transitional service it did, and I can now > purge the sucker. > > Or will my mozilla upgrades now become a fragmented manual > nightmare...?
Me, I'd believe the package description and delete it[1]. > Duh, I can't just say apt-get install mozilla anymore. <soapbox>But you didn't want to in the first place; since you're using aptitude as your front-end, you can look at what the mozilla meta-package actually depends on, and only install the parts of it you actually use (say, the Web browser part but not the mail reader.) [1] And you can mark the meta-package as automatically installed; this is a minor lie, but it causes aptitude to automatically delete the package if nothing else depends on it, which it sounds like is the effect you want.</soapbox> -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
