Re: [Synaptic-devel] How to remove package *without* it trying to upgrade dependent packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Andy Elvey wrote:

> On Sunday 29 August 2004 07:25 am, Michael Vogt wrote:
> <snip>
> > >
> > >  So, is there any way of *forcing* Synaptic to remove gcc 3.3 and all of 
> its 
> > > dependencies, so that it will not try to do any upgrades of the dependent 
> > > packages?  
> > 
> > Not really. I have a "remove with dependencies" options on my todo
> > list for a long time now. The problem is that the removal must be
> > "smart" in order to avoid the removal of importend stuff. 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >  Michael
>  
>   Ok - thanks very much for this, Michael!  I'll proceed with your comments 
> in 
> mind :-)  

Andy, if you can easily reproduce the situation still it'd be interesting 
to know what happens if you do the same removal with apt-get - there have 
been various cases where a slight difference in the nuts and bolts of 
implementation have caused quite dramatical difference in the results...

        - Panu -