Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on
>> swfdec-mozilla in the first place.  I don't know that; probably because
>> the Debian Gnome maintainers consider a flash plugin necessary for good
>> desktop experience.
>
> My point is that it's idiotic that removing swfdec (to install, say, gnash)
> removes all the GNOME packages, not just the metapackage.

Are you sure it isn't trying to remove them because they were
autoinstalled, and now the package that depends on them (the
gnome metapakage) is gone?


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers