Re: [tlug] NEWBIE: My Way and NOT Their Way?

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> CL writes:
>
>  > I've tried uninstalling with apt-get and adept using the "completely 
>  > remove" and "purge" functions.  I then did an apt-get install and got 
>  > both Iceweasel and Icedove back.  
>   
Tried it again.  It happened again.  *sigh*
> Something else you have apparently depends on those.  
As noted in my reply to Gernot, Iceweasel and Icedove list themselves as 
aliases of Firefox and Thunderbird.  I've looked for a way to break that 
but nothing is popping up, yet.  Of course, there is still a lot of 
Manual to get through and several hundred more opportunities to create a 
total system meltdown before I finish. 
> If you can't figure out any other way, a way that should work is to go
> into aptitude, then request removal of the Icky packages.  This should
> light the display up all red, and you can follow the links to find out
> why.
"Icky packages"?  Do genuine manly and masculine Linux dudes actually 
call them that or are these taken from the man package instructions for 
14-year-old girls who write everything in purple ink and dot their 
letter "i" with little hearts? 

However, I am familiar with the "turning red" thingy.  It happened when 
I axed all GNOME stuff and installed only KDE.  I felt it was easier to 
chop it all out and put back only a few things I wanted then to try to 
remember which was which when editing the disk contents.  Too bad about 
Debian not deleting program names from the main menu when you cut 
packages, though.  More cleanup FNU to look forward to. 


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CL