blacklist packages in apt

[Freddy Freeloader]

Hi All,

I'm unsure if "blacklist" is even the correct terminology for what I 
want to do, but at least it's a starting point.

I administer servers for a small company.  If it was up to me I wouldn't 
even have a gui on them, but the boss and developers come from the 
Windows world and require a gui.  So, I'm stuck with it.

What I would like to permanently get rid of are network-manager and 
avahi-daemon.  Is there a way of marking these packages with either apt 
or dpkg so that they will not be reinstalled, ever?   I've had problems 
with these two packages being auto-reinstalled when doing apt-get 
upgrades, and I just don't want to have mess with it anymore.   I know 
it is at least theoretically possible with apt-pinning by setting the 
priority very low, but I've been looking at the man pages for apt-get 
and dpkg and can see no way there of doing this without apt-pinning.  Is 
there another way and I've just missed it? 

I would just as soon not use apt-pinning if I don't have to, but if 
that's what I must do, I'll use it. 


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