* Yitzchak Gale wrote: > Yes kvim was suddenly removed entirely. As a result, I almost > accidentally deleletd all of KDE. I wonder how many people have > destroyed their system because of this.
I'd say everyone who just press return instead of reading the messages about removed packages from apt-get. ;-) I'm still interested _which_ packages depends on kvim and caused the removal of KDE on some systems. I checked this, but only found some packages recommending kvim, which shouldn't be a problem. > When a package with such heavy dependencies needs to be removed, > shouldn't it instead first be replaced by a temprorary dummy package > that causes the dependencies to be satisfied? No. Instead, the packages depending on kvim should be fixed. I already filed a bugreport against kde-extras (#303266), which recommends (and not depends on) kvim. Please, write bugreports against the packages which depends directly or indirectly on kvim. An empty kvim package would be an ugly hack. I'll bet we'd receive lots of bugreports about this 'broken' kvim package. Just removing the kvim package is the best way to get everything in a good shape. There's no package which replaces the kvim package, so no need for a dummy package. I'm closing Markos bugreport with this mail, kvim is no longer available, neither in unstable nor in testing. Regards, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
