On 15 Jul 2009 at 9:08, Rob Beard wrote: > > Paul Sutton wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi > > > > I just tried on 8.10 to remove evolution but synaptic told me it would > > also remove gnome and gnome desktop environment, why would this happen, > > when i have lots of other stuff that also uses gnome. I said no, but > > is this a bug in the dependencies. > > > > Paul > > > > > Any reason why you want to remove it? > > I'm sure I have removed Evolution before but I believe it removes > ubuntu-desktop too (which is the meta package for the desktop) although > I can't remember exactly how I did it and I haven't got a machine I can > try it on at the moment. AFAIK it isn't a bug. > > Rob >
I think I've been there! It's probably why one of the scruffy bits of paper that live under my keyboard has this scribbled on it: sudo apt-get install gdm ubuntu-desktop because next time you reboot you only get a console to log in to to isue this command. But I still have Evolution, so it must have been the consequence of doing something else. Tony -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
