Re: libreoffice packaging dependency on gnome in Wheezy 7.6

["Buchs, Kevin J." <buchs.kevin@mayo.edu>]

Martin,

Thanks for the suggestion. After I unmarkedauto gnome, apt still wanted
to remove gnome, i.e. no change. I notice here that gnome is listed as
dependent upon libreoffice-calc: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gnome

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On 10/06/2014 11:07 AM, Martin Read wrote:
> 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.