Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?
On 13 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an
> > error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have
> > this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop
> > manager).
>
> "apt-cache rdepends gnome-keyring" will tell you the reverse dependencies
> for the package.
>
> > Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it?
>
> If it is installed because of a "required" dependency coming from another
> package you can't remove it without pain :-)
>
> If the package came through a "recommended" dependency and you nor other
> program or libray are making use of it, there should be no problems to
> remove it.
>
I don't know how it got there. But "wajig show-remove" indicates that
nothing else will be removed so I guess it will be all right.
Anthony
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