Purge Empathy messes up apt
Hi all,
I have a brand new installation of Debian Wheezy, updated to the
current weekly build installed on my Toshiba A505 laptop. I chose to
install the graphical desktop environment, laptop uitilites, and
standard system utilities at tasksel during installation.
The Gnome desktop comes with a number of programs I don't want or use,
such as Empathy and Epiphany. So I ran "apt-get purge empathy" from
the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run
apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of "packages that
were automatically installed and are no longer required". Below is a
complete list.
abiword abiword-common abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview
aisleriot ant ant-optional at-spi2-core baobab ca-certificates-java cheese
dconf-tools default-jre default-jre-headless ekiga empathy-common
espeak-data file-roller finger fonts-cantarell fonts-lyx fonts-opensymbol
fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic gcalctool gdebi gdm3 gedit
gedit-common gedit-plugins gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-gdata-0.0
gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-goa-1.0 gir1.2-gucharmap-2.90
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gir1.2-tracker-0.14
gir1.2-vte-2.90 gir1.2-webkit-3.0 gir1.2-wnck-3.0 glchess glines gnect
gnibbles gnobots2 gnome-backgrounds gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility
gnome-documents gnome-font-viewer gnome-games gnome-games-data
gnome-games-extra-data gnome-icon-theme-extras gnome-mag gnome-nettool
gnome-orca gnome-packagekit gnome-packagekit-data gnome-screenshot
gnome-search-tool gnome-sudoku gnome-system-log gnome-video-effects gnomine
gnotravex gnotski gnuchess gnuchess-book gnumeric gnumeric-common
grilo-plugins-0.1 gtali gucharmap guile-2.0-libs hamster-applet hyphen-en-us
iagno icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm icedtea-netx
icedtea-netx-common inkscape iputils-tracepath java-common libabiword-2.9
libapache-pom-java libatk-adaptor libatk-adaptor-data libatk-bridge2.0-0
libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libatspi1.0-0 libatspi2.0-0
libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libbrlapi0.5 libcapi20-3 libcmis-0.2-0 libcolamd2.7.1
libcolorblind0 libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-collections3-java
libcommons-compress-java libcommons-digester-java libcommons-logging-java
libcommons-parent-java libdb-java libdb-je-java libdb5.1-java
libdb5.1-java-jni libdee-1.0-4 libdiscid0 libdmapsharing-3.0-2 libdotconf1.0
libespeak1 libexttextcat-data libexttextcat0 libgdict-1.0-6 libgdict-common
libgdome2-0 libgdome2-cpp-smart0c2a libgdu-gtk0 libgeocode-glib0 libgexiv2-1
libgnome-mag2 libgoffice-0.8-8 libgoffice-0.8-8-common libgpod-common
libgpod4 libgraphite2-2.0.0 libgrilo-0.1-0 libgtk-vnc-2.0-0
libgtkmathview0c2a libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a libgupnp-av-1.0-2 libgvnc-1.0-0
libhsqldb-java libhyphen0 libicu4j-java libjaxp1.3-java libjline-java
libjtidy-java liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblink-grammar4 libloudmouth1-0
liblouis-data liblouis2 liblucene2-java libmagick++5 libminiupnpc5
libmtp-common libmtp-runtime libmtp9 libmythes-1.2-0 libnatpmp1 libodbc1
libopal3.10.4 libots0 libplot2c2 libpstoedit0c2a libpt2.10.4 libraw5
libregexp-java libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core
libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-emailmerge libreoffice-evolution libreoffice-filter-binfilter
libreoffice-filter-mobiledev libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk
libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common
libreoffice-math libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-galaxy
libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer librhythmbox-core6
libservlet2.5-java libsonic0 libspeechd2 libsrtp0 libsvm-tools
libtelepathy-farstream2 libunique-1.0-0 libunique-3.0-0 libvisio-0.0-0
libwnck-common libwnck22 libwpd-0.9-9 libwpg-0.2-2 libwps-0.2-2 libwv-1.2-4
libxalan2-java libxerces2-java libxml-commons-external-java
libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java libxz-java liferea liferea-data lightsoff
link-grammar-dictionaries-en lp-solve mahjongg media-player-info minissdpd
mobile-broadband-provider-info mythes-en-us nautilus-sendto-empathy
network-manager-gnome nmap openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
openjdk-6-jre-lib p7zip-full perlmagick pstoedit python-brlapi python-louis
python-mako python-markupsafe python-pyatspi2 python-speechd python-uno
python-wnck python-zeitgeist quadrapassel rdesktop rhythmbox rhythmbox-data
rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder rhythmbox-plugins seahorse shotwell
shotwell-common simple-scan sound-juicer sound-theme-freedesktop
speech-dispatcher swell-foop telepathy-gabble telepathy-idle
telepathy-logger telepathy-salut transmission-common transmission-gtk
ttf-liberation ttf-sil-gentium-basic tzdata-java uno-libs3 unoconv ure
vinagre vino xbrlapi xdg-user-dirs-gtk xfonts-mathml zeitgeist-core
Is this a bug?
Regards,
Cortman
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