On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tom Furie <t...@furie.org.uk> wrote: > This seems an odd choice to make. If I installed a meta-package because > I couldn't be bothered to investigate which individual packages I > wanted, or just wanted to explore the whole package, then decide I don't > want that package, so remove the meta-package, nothing now gets removed?
It's a bit odd either way. Let's suppose you install Debian Squeeze (again, I don't know where the policy changed, but I know it was since Squeeze), and then decide that you don't want (say) Open Office. You uninstall it, but since there was a metapackage "gnome" (if I have the name right) that depended on it, apt-get removes that package. And then everything else that was installed from that metapackage is now free to be removed, right? Along with everything else that was pulled in by them. Maybe there should be special handling only of the initial install, I don't know... some way of saying "a fresh Debian system won't burn itself up when you remove one piece", without changing all metapackages. But I'm not an expert here, and I assume the change went through a thorough process of discussion. ChrisA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/captjjmqosqxvp6a0ud1varyj8jlmndncsxa-s5_hc2b9+xr...@mail.gmail.com
