On Sunday 28 December 2014 01:46:29 Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Alexandre wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:19:20 -0800
> >> From: dan@...
> >> To: trinity-users@...
> >> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] removing games and other cruff.
> >>
> >> On 12/26/2014 11:32 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> >>> I thought I'd try purging them the so-called easy way using kpackage
> >>> but when I get set to remove kdegames-trinity, it _looks_ like
> >>> tde-trinity will go along it. I know this has to do with
> >>> 'meta-packages' but I don't understand the implications.
> >>
> >> What I do is, first make sure there are no autoremovable packages.  Then
> >> remove the metapackage.  Then look at the packages that are now
> >> autoremovable, and mark anything you want to keep as manually installed.
> >> Then autoremove the rest.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If you want to use Synaptic, it will tell you which package would be
> > removed if you proceed to remove the metapackage. If it makes sense
> > for you, click on okay and if it wants to remove tons of packages,
> > then something went wrong in packaging...
>
> I'd rather not use synaptic actually but I'll have a look. kpackage
> showed the same set of dependencies on metapackages that was the
> reason for my question.

aptitude gives you the same information and the chance to alter it.  So, no 
doubt, does apt-get.

It isn't that "something went wrong in packaging".  It is that it and you 
don't agree!  But you can get round it as others have suggested.

Though, I must say it does seem odd that TDE should depend on kdegames!!!

Lisi
>
> I think I have the answer to the question now though. plus now if
> something goes wrong, I can blame you guys!
>
> <g>
>
> F.
>
> > Hope it helps!
> > -Alexandre