On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:13:30AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > [CC'ing the aptitude maintainer, mainly for the last paragraph.] > > * Jeroen van Wolffelaar [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:00:22 +0200]: > > > The main things that this thread shows me, is that it is *not* immediately > > clear to people not too familiar with Debian that the removal of the 'gnome' > > package will not have *any* effect on what actual software is actually > > installed > > on your system. > > Do not forget, though, that with aptitude becoming the prefered tool > for package management (over plain apt-get), this is no longer true. > "aptitude install gnome" will mark all of its dependencies as "auto", > i.e. just installed because of a dependency. Which means that > "aptitude remove gnome" will want to remove all the dependencies _for > real_, unless they have been previously marked as "noauto" by hand.
What will "aptitude remove gnome-games" do? Remove gnome, leaving the deps behind, or remove gnome and then remove it's deps because they're auto? - Matt
