On May 22, 2003 05:49 pm, Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 22 May 2003 23:20, Chris Cheney wrote: > > You don't even have to install kdeprint at all then... so why are you? > > Ahh yes. kdebase depends on kdeprint. I guess I can just uninstall the > lot.. > > :) >
I've seen this issue raised all the time and thought it may be time to point out just what the kde metapackages do - kdebase is a metapackage that depends on various other packages - installing kdebase will get all packages that it depends on - removing kdebase or a package that kdebase depends on will only remove the metapackage kdebase, it *will not remove all packages* kdebase depends on. For example in your case it would be, "Well now that we have removed kdeprint, the kdebase metapackage is no longer complete, so we have to remove it" - the same goes for any metapackage...if you get kdenetwork and don't want ksirc, if you remove ksirc, it will remove kdenetwork but it will not remove all the other depends for kdenetwork Hoping that clears things up a little, James
