Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/15/08 20:09, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> 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?

apt-get would only remove the meta-package and leave the other packages.

It would, however, nag you about the auto-installed packages, 
telling you how to get rid of them.  If, however, you wanted to keep 
(some of) them, just "apt-get install" them, and apt-get will learn 
that you want to keep them.

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