All I know is on my stripped down computer with no speakers (except for the boot beep beeper), I asked myself: why can I dpkg-purge esound-clients, but then if I do apt-get dist-upgrade (vs. dselect-upgrade), it gets installed back again?
Well it turns out esound-clients is depended on by libesd0 which removing would cause The following packages will be REMOVED: gnumeric gnuplot gnuplot-mode gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 icewm libbonoboui2-0 libesd0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgoffice-0-6 libwxgtk2.6-0 So no easy way to say, "I don't have sound on this device, so no need to install sound items". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]