On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:51:24AM -0700, Steven Sciame wrote:
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> This originates from me trying to figure out why my digital camera doesn't work well with Squeeze (It was absolutely perfect in Lenny) I submitted a couple of bug reports back in february http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612699 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612701
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> I figured I would remove gthumb and shotwell and install one or the other to see if one would work. I got the same performance as described above. Apt-get seemed to not be bothered by me dong this last night, but this morning it is an issue.
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> autoremove is insisting on removing my whole desktop and... :
> debtop:/home/steven# apt-get purge shotwell
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
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> python-httplib2 gnome-system-log file-roller python-rdflib
> libboost-python1.42.0 remmina libgdata-common sound-juicer libmusicbrainz3-6
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> shotwell*
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 4,727 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
Why would you want to run "apt-get autoremove"? My understanding is that
it's optional.
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