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Re: Gnome to be removed from debian?



Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Basically it boils down to it being a feature of the packaging system that
> you can unpack things in any order and there is no point where you can
> check reverse depends that it would not be 'too late'.

But that is only true when you use a frontend such as apt, which will
make sure that the system ends up being correct.

If you install things by hand it is now quite easy to break things,
which I would not call a `feature of the packaging system'.

Wichert.

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