On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/15/08 20:09, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:42PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> But maybe you are more interested in the question why gnome depends on >>>> swfdec-mozilla in the first place. I don't know that; probably because >>>> the Debian Gnome maintainers consider a flash plugin necessary for good >>>> desktop experience. >>>> >>> My point is that it's idiotic that removing swfdec (to install, say, >>> gnash) >>> removes all the GNOME packages, not just the metapackage. >>> >> >> Are you sure it isn't trying to remove them because they were >> autoinstalled, and now the package that depends on them (the >> gnome metapakage) is gone? >> > > apt-get would only remove the meta-package and leave the other packages. > > It would, however, nag you about the auto-installed packages, telling you > how to get rid of them. If, however, you wanted to keep (some of) them, > just "apt-get install" them, and apt-get will learn that you want to keep > them. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when > he is in trouble again. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I got the same problem few days ago and I had to reinstall my gnome...now when i do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade it always keeps back swfdec-mozilla.
