On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:10:22PM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the > dependency should work the other way: gnome-games should depend on gnome.
I've always wanted apt to be able to distinguish between a task and a metapackage; something like “I want GNOME, but without the games and Evolution, please”... Would it help having our metapackages use all Recommends instead of Depends? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
