On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:54:00AM -0800, "Michael M. Moore" <mich...@writemoore.net> was heard to say: >>> The thing is I was planning on keeping gdm, though I guess I could >>> switch to xdm, or do without a display manager. But gdm, according >>> to aptitude, shouldn't require nautilus. It shouldn't even require >>> gnome-session, just one of gnome-session | x-session-manager | >>> x-window-manager | x-terminal-emulator. I have Openbox and xterm >>> installed, so I should be covered there, right? >> >> Then you need to remove gnome-session and replace it with something >> else. > > That gets to the heart of my confusion about how this works, because I > didn't *need* a replacement for gnome-session -- I already had packages > installed that satisfied that requirement.
aptitude conservatively assumes that if A depends on B, that you might want B because of A. That's true even if the same dependency could be satisfied by another package -- otherwise aptitude would be in the business of guessing which alternative not to delete. :-) > But aptitude wouldn't > automatically remove the automatically installed gnome-session unless I > removed gdm. I could have manually removed gnome-session without > breaking anything, but all that would have done was remove gnome-session > -- that action would not have removed nautilus, even though nautilus was > still installed because gnome-session recommended it. I'm not sure, but I bet that there was something else installed that needed nautilus, and that gdm depended on or recommended. I can't see any obvious candidates in that list, though. (I tried a few, and they all only require gnome-session) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
