On 2008-10-16 01:32 +0200, Carl Fink 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.
You should then mark the packages you want to keep as "manually installed" to tell apt/aptitude that you want them. E.g. use "aptitude unmarkauto <package>" to mark individual packages or "aptitude unmarkauto '~sgnome'" to mark all Gnome packages as manually installed. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
