On 16/03/11 00:45, Milan Niznansky wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:16 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:26:33PM +0100, Milan Niznansky wrote: >>> Do you really believe that a user uninstalling gnome-games wants to >>> uninstall stuff like Liferea, Network-manager, update-manager, gdebi .. >>> etc. ? >>> Because that is what removing that "not-needed" as you made it sound >>> "gnome" metapackage tries to achieve. >>> >>> Any other suggestion on how to remove gnome-games (or gnome-screensaver >>> or ...) WITHOUT destroying the desktop environment? >> >> aptitude unmarkauto ~Rgnome >> aptitude remove gnome-games > > Well that fancy "unmarkauto ~R*", kind of, helped. > > So, eventually, just to remove gnome-games one has to: > 1) remove "gnome" (totally counter intuitive, Microsoft style behavior) > :/# aptitude unmarkauto ~Rgnome > :/# aptitude unmarkauto gdebi liferea network-manager-gnome gnome-office > shotwell > :/# aptitude remove gnome > 2) remove gnome-games > :/# aptitude remove gnome-games > > > But, gnome-games aside, I would love to know why is the gnome > metapackage misused for installing completely independent stuff like > liferea?
The real "only GNOME" metapackage is gnome-desktop-environment. This is confusing, we should probably fix it for the GNOME 3 metapackages. Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
