XBian as Raspbian alternative - without XBMC

[mk01]

@zilexa

edit /var/lig/dpkg/status and remove xbian-package-xbmc from depends of other packages. anyhow it will get back with such pkg update.

another option would be to remove xbmc (dpkg --force-all -p xbian-package-xbmc) and then put into /var/lib/dpkg/status section like xbian-package-xbmc would be installed. so save this section before xbmc remove.

this will survive also other pkg updates.
if we would consider that as USER option, probably in todays situation fastest way would be to create "empty" xbian-package-xbmc, xbian-package-xbmc-scripts and upstart-xbmc-bridge packages. empty means just DEBIAN/* content, no actual files. this is called meta-package and even Debian is using it for various purposes.

more than that, those packages could have -meta suffix (or any other) and in "Provides: " specified the original names. then they can be pushed to APT and provide "alternative" like currently -nightly or -6q or -alsa for instance (so by installing them you would get the actual components removed, but apt-get would stay intact).

you will see better what I mean if you grab such package and extracts it and check the content DEBIAN/control

Code:

cd /tmp
apt-get download xbian-package-xbmc-alsa
dpkg -x xbian-package-xbmc-alsa*.deb ./

then you can create them and push to XBian


it is like 20m work with some experience, 1h without including some try-and-see elaboration.