anyone running Kubuntu & vmware, or kubuntu & codeweavers?

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 10:50, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> The one drawback is that it _doesn't_ know anything about existing
>> installed packages.  I got around that when I first started to use
>> aptitude by using something like (don't trust me on this - it's a long
>> time ago):
>>
>> # aptitude markauto ~nlib*
>>
>> to make all lib* packages "automatic".  There's also some way to do that
>> without it actually removing unneeded packages at the time (but I can't
>> find the option), so that you can use "unmarkauto" to reset the ones you
>> really need before anything drastic happens.
> 
> That is good, but how do you know which ones you really need?  deborphan?

Deborphan isn't any better - it always wanted to take out 3 or 4 packages I
needed.  Right now it tells me it wants to get rid of libxerces-java and
classpath - both of which I know I'm using.  There are 10 others I'm not
sure about (xlibs-data ??? & the others are all lib* packages).
-- 
derek