Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-12 3:57 +0800]: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system? > [...] > # apt-get purge libcupsys2 > ... 50 to remove > It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy! That's because a lot of packages

Re: how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:57:12 +0800, jidanni AT jidanni DOT org wrote: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system? > Find their name with > # grep-status 'This is a dummy package' > and then apt-get purge them? > Seems not to systemat

Re: how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-11 Thread Martin Kraus
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:57:12AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system? > Find their name with > # grep-status 'This is a dummy package' > and then apt-get purge them? > Seems not to systematic. &

Re: how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-11 Thread Hubert Chathi
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:57:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their > system? # deborphan --guess-dummy > Find their name with > # grep-status 'This is a dummy package' > and then apt-get purge them? See

how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-11 Thread jidanni
Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system? Find their name with # grep-status 'This is a dummy package' and then apt-get purge them? Seems not to systematic. OK, I just tried that here on sid # apt-get purge libcupsys2 ... 50 to remove It wanted

Re: Aptitude insists to install dummy packages

2007-01-05 Thread ][
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:51:03 +, ][ wrote: > When I checked Aptitude's internal database using > > aptitude install -fsD > > I get > > The following packages are BROKEN: > > mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) mplayer (C: mplayer-k6) > sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils) > The f

Aptitude insists to install dummy packages

2007-01-05 Thread ][
Hi, I have mplayer & mencoder installed from debian-multimedia [1]. When I checked Aptitude's internal database using aptitude install -fsD I get The following packages are BROKEN: mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) mplayer (C: mplayer-k6) sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils) The

Re: Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
--- Bill Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > also sprach Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [2002.04.15.2247 > > +0200]: > > > Can someone point me to a dock that will help me > > > create a dummy package? I want to install > velocity as > > > a d

Re: Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Bell
Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > also sprach Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.15.2247 > +0200]: > > Can someone point me to a dock that will help me > > create a dummy package? I want to install velocity as > > a deb, but it requires libxalan2-java which is > > available. H

Re: Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Charles Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.15.2247 +0200]: > Can someone point me to a dock that will help me > create a dummy package? I want to install velocity as > a deb, but it requires libxalan2-java which is > available. However, libxalan2-java depends on > java2-runtime which is

Dummy Packages

2002-04-15 Thread Charles Baker
Can someone point me to a dock that will help me create a dummy package? I want to install velocity as a deb, but it requires libxalan2-java which is available. However, libxalan2-java depends on java2-runtime which is not, but I do have a Java2 environment installed. BTW, this is on a machine runn

how to create dummy packages?

2000-03-16 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'd like to create a dummy package for the the xfree stuff so that I don't have to worry about the stupid dependencies all sorts of things have on xfree. For instance, task-gnome anything depends on xfree, which is complete bull. So I want to make a xfree pacakge with a version number such that d