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Re: side effects of installing gimp



Mark Copper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to install gimp on an out-of-the-box installation of etch with
> Gnome on an AMD64 system.
> 
> #aptitude install gimp
> 
> says 3 packages will be installed (gimp gimp-gnomevfs and gimp-python),
> but that 91(!) packages will be removed.  These include compilers
> (binutils, cpp, gcc, guile, python2.4), possibly some duplication
> (cupsys-common, gs-common), and many lib packages.
> 
> Is there something wrong with this picture?  Is installation safe?
> *Why* would it be necessary to remove so many packages?
Please provide full output of command. And also try 'apt-get install gimp'.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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