On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Debian 9.5 (amd64) and attempting to uninstall firefox-esr. > However, apt says that gnome and gnome-core are among the packages which > will also be uninstalled. Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on > firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone? > > Thanks!
If you know what you are doing, you can also use equivs [1] [2] to let the package manager believe that some dependency is satisfied. As always, lying comes at a cost, the minimum being to remember what lies you've told so-far :-) Cheers [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_the_equivs_package [2] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/equivs -- tomás
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