Re: Purging depends in cinnamon
On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:59:28PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> I recently installed the cinnamon desktop in my Sid installation
> which of course brought in Icedove and Ice Weasel as well as a number
> of other programs.
>
> Is there any way to eliminate them, as I have been running Thunderbird
> and firefox. Trying to purge them results in aptitude wanting to
> purge a lot of other stuff, including the cinnamon-desktop-environment.
One of could be a virtual package depending on Iceweasel etc. I'd check
with e.g. a combination of 'apt-cache rdepends iceweasel' and 'apt-cache
show <packagename>'
I don't use cinnammon so don't know the exact packagename.
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