On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 08:03:32 +0300 Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Vi, 02 aug 19, 21:36:17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hi! All -- > > > > Installed Buster (netinstall CD, LXDE desktop ONLY, system-utils) in > > Virtualbox 6.0 on Stretch (sysvinit as init) host to test and evaluate. > > Firefox-esr, of course, installed by default, but after installing > > Google Chrome didn't need it anymore, so . . . When I apt purge > > firefox-esr, it was removed and epiphany-browser was installed its > > place. ??? Strange. Never had that happen before. When I purged or > > removed epiphany-browser, firefox-esr was reinstalled in ITS place. > > > > If I PINned both not to install, a lot of other files were installed > > instead like verious ruby files, zip, vlc, etc. etc. List is way too > > long to post here. > > > > Never, ever had this happen and I purged firefox-esr this way from both > > Wheezy and Stretch. It purged as it should have been with nothing > > added. > > > > Anyone got any ideas why this happened? Or is this a nasty, ol' bug? > > The package firefox-esr has: > > Provides: gnome-www-browser, www-browser > > which are "virtual packages" used in dependencies of other package to > express they need a functionality, but don't care about the specific > implementation. > > Most likely something in your system depends on one or both virtual > packages, so apt is installing another package providing the virtual > package to satisfy the dependency. > > The alternative would be to remove large portions of your system. It was LibreOffice-help-en-us that was causing the problem due to specifically listed browser dependencies. I purged the Help component to test, and was able to remove both browsers with no problems. Thanks for your input. B
