On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:08:05 +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:21:22PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > >> > For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with >> > LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other >> > packages it just results in disaster, for example Ive tried removing >> > the empathy package and have inadvertently removed the entire OS. >> >> How is that? Empathy is just an IM client, it should be easily >> removable :-? > > The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on > empathy. As with many of these "all encomapssing" meta packages you are > usually better off picking just the subset of packages that you actually > want.
Ugh... very true, at least for squeeze onwards :-( http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gnome-desktop-environment Then better install "gnome-core", right? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.06.10.40...@gmail.com
