On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson
<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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?
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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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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I got the same problem few days ago and I had to reinstall my gnome...now when i do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade it always keeps back swfdec-mozilla.