On 10/07/2014 at 10:44 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: > Martin, > > Thanks for the suggestion. After I unmarkedauto gnome, apt still > wanted to remove gnome, i.e. no change. I notice here that gnome is > listed as dependent upon libreoffice-calc: > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gnome
(Please don't top-post.) That's because gnome itself is a metapackage, depending on a more detailed set of packages which the GNOME package maintainers think should be included in the "GNOME Desktop Environment" - and that set of packages includes libreoffice. (It doesn't actually include libreoffice-writer or libreoffice-calc - it will accept abiword and gnumeric in place of those two programs - but it does include the GNOME-integration packages, which depend indirectly on libreoffice-core.) I suspect that the GNOME package maintainers simply haven't taken the existence of libreoffice4.2 packages into account in their package dependencies. Ordinarily I'd suggest filing a bug report asking them to correct that, but at this late date (with libreoffice4.2 not existing in testing, and the jessie freeze less than a month away), I doubt there's any chance of such a change being made. So you're probably screwed as far as having this be handled automatically by the metapackage's dependencies goes. But if you're willing to remove the 'gnome' metapackage, and unmarkauto its dependencies based on which ones you want to keep, then you can probably still achieve your overall goal. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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