Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?
On 2008-10-16 01:32 +0200, Carl Fink 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.
You should then mark the packages you want to keep as "manually
installed" to tell apt/aptitude that you want them. E.g. use
"aptitude unmarkauto <package>" to mark individual packages or
"aptitude unmarkauto '~sgnome'" to mark all Gnome packages as manually
installed.
Sven
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