Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 02 janvier 2005 à 12:49 -0600, Steve Greenland a écrit : > > On 01-Jan-05, 21:14 (CST), Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > > > I'm tryi

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread John Hasler
Josselin Mouette writes: > Why in the world would you then want to install a metapackage if its > selection doesn't suit you? Most users do not understand meta-packages. They decide to "run Gnome" rather than "run KDE" and so they install Gnome. -- John Hasler

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 janvier 2005 à 12:49 -0600, Steve Greenland a écrit : > On 01-Jan-05, 21:14 (CST), Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > > I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution > > > from

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jan-05, 21:14 (CST), Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution > > from my system since I use Mutt for email. But doing that wants to > > remove Gnom

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:07:42PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution > from my system since I use Mutt for email. But doing that wants to > remove Gnome. So it wants to remove the Gnome meta-package. So what? -- Marc Wils

Re: dependancy issues

2005-01-01 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Carl B. Constantine in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to trim my system a little bit. I wanted to purge Evolution > from my system since I use Mutt for email. But doing that wants to > remove Gnome. apt-cache is your friend: [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $apt-cache show gnome Package: gnome [...]