I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's package manager at all, but I can't imagine this is the correct or default behavior. Gentoo's Portage isn't at all like this - it only uninstalls the package you tell it to.
Quoting jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matthew Harrison wrote: > > >and using a package manager > > I'm about ready to scrap package managers, and only use > tarballs. Package managers make it easy to install stuff, > and impossible to uninstall stuff without doing severe > damage to one's system. [Why on earth should uninstalling > firefox result in the Ubuntu desktop being uninstalled? Why > should uninstalling Zekr result in both OSS and ALSA beign > uninstalled. ] > > xan > > jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
