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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:43:02AM +0200, Bharadwaj Narasimhan wrote:
> When I use apt-get to remove libreoffice packages completely, gnome also
> gets removed hence asking me to auto-remove all the other utillities.
Yes, expected:
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$ apt-cache show gnome
Package: gnome
Source: meta-gnome3
Version: 1:3.4+7
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Depends: gnome-core (= 1:3.4+7), desktop-base, network-manager-gnome (>= 0.9.4), aisleriot (>= 1:3.4), cheese (>= 3.4), evolution (>= 3.4), evolution-plugins (>= 3.4), file-roller (>= 3.4), gedit (>= 3.4), gnome-color-manager (>= 3.4), gnome-documents (>= 0.4), gnome-games (>= 1:3.4), gnome-nettool (>= 3.2), nautilus-sendto (>= 3.0), gnome-orca (>= 3.4), rygel-preferences (>= 0.14), seahorse (>= 3.4), totem (>= 3.0), vinagre (>= 3.4), alacarte (>= 0.13.4), avahi-daemon, gimp (>= 2.8), gnome-media (>= 3.4), gnome-tweak-tool (>= 3.4), hamster-applet (>= 2.91.3), inkscape (>= 0.48), libreoffice-gnome, libreoffice-writer | abiword (>= 2.8), libreoffice-calc | gnumeric (>= 1.10), libreoffice-impress, rhythmbox (>= 2.96), shotwell, simple-scan, sound-juicer (>= 3.4), tomboy (>= 1.10) | gnote, tracker-gui, transmission-gtk, xdg-user-dirs-gtk, cups-pk-helper (>= 0.2), gedit-plugins (>= 3.4), gnome-applets (>= 3.4), gnome-shell-extensions (>= 3.4), gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (>= 0.10.13), gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly (>=
0.10.19), rhythmbox-plugins, rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder, rygel-playbin, rygel-tracker, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-rakia, telepathy-salut, totem-plugins, xul-ext-adblock-plus, libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130)
Recommends: browser-plugin-gnash, gdebi, gnome-games-extra-data (>= 3.0), nautilus-sendto-empathy, telepathy-idle
Suggests: dia-gnome, gnome-boxes, gnucash, libreoffice-evolution, planner, iceweasel-l10n-all, xul-ext-gnome-keyring
Description-en: Full GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components
This is the GNOME Desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive
desktop, with extra components.
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This meta-package depends on the standard distribution of the GNOME
desktop environment, plus a complete range of plugins and other
applications integrating with GNOME and Debian, providing the best
possible environment to date.
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This is a meta-package. The whole sense is to install what the GNOME people think
is a full system. And this includes libreoffice.
"gnome" itself is empty. It sanely can be removed.
Not a bug in either LO or GNOME.
> The need for removing libreoffice completely is to replace version 3.5.4
> with the latest verion 4.0.3.3 from the libreoffice website directly.
Uhm, you know that there will be a 4.0.3 in wheezy-backports, soon? Obviously not :-)
Anyway, closing.
Regards,
Rene
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