[Sussex] Debian is a pain in the bum

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On 29 May 2003 at 15:50 Geoff Teale wrote:
> Sorted!

Great.
 
> I just had to hand remove everything that depended on 
> python2.1 using dpkg --purge 
>
> ... note.. this is not a pleasant job, it involves removing 
> everything in KDE and Koffice which debian-security had 
> dumped on me one by one in order of dependancy

That is why I suggested forcing the older version in by hand.
It shouldn't clear out those packages that depend upon it.

> *blurgh*

Well if you will upgrade to a testing version what do you expect?
 
> .. now if I can just convince debian that _it_ does not need 
> to manage my kernel installation!

Just remove the binary kernel package.  Nothing depends upon it.

Steve