Package: apt Version: 0.5.3 Severity: normal <-- snip -->
# apt-get remove slang1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: ... WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! dpkg sysvinit (due to dpkg) util-linux (due to sysvinit) slang1 (due to util-linux) 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 164 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 311MB will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] <-- snip --> It isn't true that slang1 gets removed due to the removal of util-linux, but util-linux gets removed due to the removal of slang1 instead. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de 2.4.2-ac16 #1 Fri Mar 9 15:07:55 CET 2001 i586 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.2-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.3-6 The GNU stdc++ library
