On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:21:22PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with > > LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other > > packages it just results in disaster, for example Ive tried removing > > the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS. > > How is that? Empathy is just an IM client, it should be easily > removable :-? The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on empathy. As with many of these "all encomapssing" meta packages you are usually better off picking just the subset of packages that you actually want. Cheers, Tom -- Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable. You *can* see dragons. You just have to look in the right direction. -- John Hasler
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