dependency hell

[Carl R. Powers]

I just tried to do a lunar update.  Among packages to be updated was gtkmm2.
That's no problem, it's installed.  Only now, glibmm, which wasn't 
installed, has
apparently been added as a required depend.  That's reasonable.  Only,
  glibmm requires doxygen
  doxygen requires teTeX
  teTeX requires w3c-libwww
  w3c-libwww requires teTeX-texmf.
Is there any way of avoiding this proliferation of packages I don't 
want, short
of getting rid of the one that starts the chain?  I deleted glibmm from 
the gtkmm2
DEPENDS file, but lin is still getting it from somewhere else.

TIA.

Carl Powers
<powers at trac.wsmr.army.mil>