installing matplot lib & dependancies

[Luc Lefebvre <luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca>]

Hi,

I was looking at installing matplotlib <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html#Debian>

I am currently running libranet 2.8.1 (essentially Debian testing).

Some of the requirements for matplotlib are:

fonttools and python-numeric (there are others but the same issues _exactly_ come up).

If I do "apt-get -s install fonttools" I get the warning that the following packages will be removed:

garchiver gnome-core-devel icewm-control-panel liblinc-dev python-gdk-imlib
    python-glade python-gnome python-gtk python-xmlbase

How can I determine if removing any of these would be a "bad" thing for me.

tia

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