[CLUE-Tech] Debian dependencies

[Timothy Klein]

On Monday 06 December 2004 12:51 pm, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Can someone tell me why, on Debian, I cannot remove things like
> abiword without removing gnome?  Why does gnome depend on abiword? 
> I think the same goes for gnumeric.  Is there a legitimate reason
> why I can't have the gnome desktop without having a spreadsheet or
> word processor?

How sure are you that it is actually removing all of Gnome?  Debian 
usually has virtual packages called X11, Gnome, KDE, etc.  These 
virtual packages are nothing more that a list of packages that are 
considered to comprise "Gnome" or whatever.  If Abiword is in that 
list, and you un-install it, it removes the virtual package, but that 
is it.  Nothing else goes, and you haven't lost anything but a 
virtual package that was just a list of other packages.

I would guess that this is what you are seeing, but I can't be sure 
because I don't use Gnome, I use KDE.

What is apt/dpkg/aptitiude telling you it is going to remove?  If it 
just says Gnome will be removed, what I have said here is happening.  
If it says ~30 packages including libraries, apps, etc., then it is 
actually trying to remove all of Gnome.

Tim
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