On 06/10/14 16:01, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote:
I have both libreoffice and libreoffice4.2 installed. I just want to keep the 4.2 version, but when I try to apt-get remove libreoffice, it wants to remove gnome. Why is gnome dependent upon libreoffice?
Gnome doesn't depend on libreoffice.What's happening here is that the task-gnome-desktop metapackage depends on libreoffice (since the maintainers of that metapackage think that it's reasonable to do so). Gnome was installed because the task-desktop-gnome metapackage was installed; when task-desktop-gnome goes away, anything it depends on which is marked as automatically installed, and which nothing else depends on, will also be marked for removal.
Try: aptitude unmarkauto gnome and see if apt stops wanting to remove gnome.