And because I forgot - while complete removal will remove the configuration files as well it doesn;t to my knowledge deal with any personal configs in your home directory
Kev Kev wrote: > Firefox is a metapackage - whatever the exact description of that > entails I know not. I just think of metapackages as boxes with other > 'stuff' in - not very technical but it get's me by :) - similarly > ubuntu-desktop (and kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop) are metapackages. > > Firefox-3.0 is actually the firefox app and it has it's dependencies. > > Kev > > Tony Arnold wrote: >> Rowan, >> >> Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> >>> It makes it sound as if I can't be bothered to read the help notes >>> before taking up people's time, which is not the case. I was just tired. >>> I have read the help notes now, and it seems that solid colour in the >>> icon boxes means a package is broken, and that 'complete removal' means >>> the removal of the principal package and all its dependencies. However, >>> it isn't always completely obvious which one the principal item is. >> No, removal of a package will remove all the files installed for that >> package but it will leave any configuration files behind. Complete >> removal will remove the configuration files as well. >> >> Getting rid of dependencies is separate. I just tried removing package >> 'firefox' and no dependencies were affected. I then tried removing >> 'firefox-3.0' and 5 or so dependencies were also marked for removal. It >> was the same set for removal and complete-removal. >> >> Maybe someone else can explain this behaviour. >> >> Regards, >> Tony. > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
