Clarification on just what the kde metapackages are (was: kdeprint depends on efax)
On May 22, 2003 05:49 pm, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 23:20, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > You don't even have to install kdeprint at all then... so why are you?
>
> Ahh yes. kdebase depends on kdeprint. I guess I can just uninstall the
> lot..
>
> :)
>
I've seen this issue raised all the time and thought it may be time to point
out just what the kde metapackages do
- kdebase is a metapackage that depends on various other packages
- installing kdebase will get all packages that it depends on
- removing kdebase or a package that kdebase depends on will only remove the
metapackage kdebase, it *will not remove all packages* kdebase depends on.
For example in your case it would be, "Well now that we have removed
kdeprint, the kdebase metapackage is no longer complete, so we have to remove
it"
- the same goes for any metapackage...if you get kdenetwork and don't want
ksirc, if you remove ksirc, it will remove kdenetwork but it will not remove
all the other depends for kdenetwork
Hoping that clears things up a little,
James
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