Thanks for the information. I guess I'm just surprised that the dependencies are limited to firefox/firefox-esr/chromium. Seems like other browsers like Iceweasel are just arbitrarily left out.
- Dave On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:01 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote: > > Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on > > firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome > alone? > > apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends > > It says "... firefox-esr (>= 30) | firefox (>= 30) | chromium ..." > so you would need to replace firefox-esr with one of those two > alternatives instead of just flat-out trying to remove it. > > -- Dave Parker '11 Database & Systems Administrator Utica College Integrated Information Technology Services (315) 792-3229 Registered Linux User #408177