Re: Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

2011-05-08 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/2011 12:44 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Not exactly what you are looking for, but look at apt pinning. The > apt_preferences(5) man page would be a good start. > > Regards, > Andrei +1 - -- Best regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -BEGI

Re: Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

2011-05-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 05 mai 11, 19:55:11, Chris Brennan wrote: > I've a headless server running Debian 6 and I am curious if there is a way > to restrict what gets pulled in Not exactly what you are looking for, but look at apt pinning. The apt_preferences(5) man page would be a good start. Regards, Andrei --

Re: Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

2011-05-05 Thread shawn wilson
On May 5, 2011 7:55 PM, "Chris Brennan" wrote: > > I've a headless server running Debian 6 and I am curious if there is a way to restrict what gets pulled in > > Example #1 Gentoo: USE="-X" will effectively stop all X/X-related libs from being installed and the package manager there will fail, tel