On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > 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.
I think this is one of the purposes of apt-pinning. BTW, IIRC you must set a negative priority (I guess -1 will do) to prevent the package from being installed. You could also investigate what is pulling the "offending" packages. I think they are recommended by a lot of other packages so I guess you could turn recommends off for upgrades, though, AFAIK recommends are only pulled on the first install of a package. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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