Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 19:11, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
Answers:
Etch
apt-get
I was informed by apt-get that Iceweasel package will be installed,
but I wasn't informed that instead of Firefox and it is a problem! If
I would like to uninstall (even current version of) Firefox I would
do it myself.
You would have been informed that Firefox would be removed, since apt
states when a package will be removed.
I have to disagree with this statement. The package firefox still
exists in the apt repositories and can be installed. It is actually a
transitional package that just installs iceweasel. However, upgrading
firefox at the point when it was replaced by iceweasel *did not* remove
firefox, it updated it to the transitional package which installed
iceweasel instead.
Whilst I agree the OP was a little terse I don't think they could have
known simply from the output of apt that firefox was being *replaced* by
iceweasel.
Of course, if you kept up with almost any news source about what is
going on in FOSS, or Debian specifically, you would have known to
expect this. It's been discussed here before and even on the almighty
fount of blabbering blather known as Slashdot, as well as many other
places.
Hal
This I can't argue with :)
my 2p
Wackojacko
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