Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?
On 2010-03-17, Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
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> Current Squeeze.
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> eog
> gedit
> gnome-applets
> gnome-control-center
> gnome-icon-theme
> gnome-menus
> gnome-panel
> gnome-power-manager
> gnome-session
> gnome-settings-daemon
> gnome-terminal
> gvfs
> metacity
> mutter
> nautilus
> yelp
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> suggests gnome-desktop-environment
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> There are several things. One is gnome-desktop-environment.
> Suggestions and recommendations get added automatically, if I don't
> watch out. Can't figure out why.
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> GDE depends on gnome-core. Gnome depends on GDE. None of the three
> currently installed depends on gnash according to apt-cache, but
> updating any of the three or gnome-accessibility tries to install gnash.
> Go figure.
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Try apt-cache with the '--recurse' option (an example is in Ron's post).
It will tell you if gnash is lurking somewhere deep down in the
dependency tree.
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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