On Ma, 22 apr 14, 22:56:27, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2014 19:24:17 c. marlow wrote: > > I did a TOTAL REMOVE from synaptic of all lxde packages. > > This wouldn't have removed any dependencies, which is what autoremove was > trying to put right. > > I don't know Synaptic, but this seems to me a very odd way to remove a > desktop. I would just Aptitude purge the desktop meta package if I > wanted to remove it.
Unfortunately this may not have the desired effect with at least Gnome, due to circular Depends/Recommends of the installed packages. Besides, recently[1] meta-packages have been getting special treatment, i.e. their dependencies get marked as manually installed, in order to prevent the old "I tried to remove a package and now my entire Desktop Environment was removed". [1] I'm too lazy to check if this is already in stable or just testing. I still don't understand why Developers insist on using Depends instead of Recommends for meta-packages. > But I don't quite see why you wanted to remove it. There is nothing > wrong with having 2 desktops available, unless you have a very small > hard drive. Agreed. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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