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Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)



On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:42:07PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote:
> recently I tried to remove some of the excess software on my system, so
> I tried removing stuff like koffice, or kate, or kedit, ksysv, kcron,
> everything that doesn't look like it is needed for operating kde, even
> kde-base-doc. kde is dependent on all of them. Is this a bug?

No. kde is a metapackage provided for convenience. If you don't want all
of it, just remove the kde package, which you can do harmlessly.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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