On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +0000, John K Masters wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:51:52 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:36:08PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > [snip] > > > Sound Juicer is one of those dependencies and so the gnome-desktop-environment > > > package can obviously not being kept if you want to remove it. > > > > but watch out. It may try to pull out your whole gui. If you installed > > gnome-desktop-environment using aptitude then all its dependencies are > > marked as "automatic" and may get yanked as well. Go in an mark the > > first level down from gnome-desktop-env. as manually installed... > > > > A > > <chicken>I haven't tried anything yet.</chicken> I'm using apt-get as I've never really got along with aptitude. Installation was done with a netinstall CD and just desktop environment chosen. Not that bothered about keeping or removing sound-juicer but would just like to keep things tidy. in that case, relax. you *should* notice that removing sound-juicer removes a package called "gnome-desktop-environment" but that should be about it. As long as it isn't also removing thinks like "xserver-xorg-core" or other equally scary packages, you'll be fine. gnome-desktop-environment is a meta-package. It doesn't not acutally contain anything, but it depends on a bunch of other stuff that will build a full desktop environment. By removing one of these pieces, you no longer satisfy all the dependencies for that meta-package so it gets removed too. But, the *rest* ofthe dependencies from that meta-package should remain intact. Just read carefully before you hit 'y'. A
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