"Arthur H. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, we don't play the games, but they are inventoried, and they can't > be there. Second, I can, indeed, remove gnome and re-install individual > packages and waste a fair amount of time. Government computers are a > fairly large group and I would think that you might want to facilitate > the use of Linux and of Debian on them by swapping the dependency. If > not you will be telling each of us to embark on a Rube Goldberg > installation process.
Removing the "gnome" package does not cause you to remove the individual packages it depended on. Swapping the dependency is wrong; gnome-games does not depend on all of gnome. The purpose of the "gnome" package is just to be a placeholder for "all gnome-related packages". Deleting that package does not delete the individual packages that it depended on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]