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