2007/7/17, Matthew Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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
Ubuntu's package manager, Synaptic, removes related dependencies when uninstalling packages. As regards English being the «unofficial language of the Internet» (Mathew Harrison), I suggest that this is an historical phase which very well may be coming to an end. And let us be thankful in that event ; the great progress that took place in scientific and technological development in Europe from the end of the 16th century onward would probably not have been possible if certain courageous spirits, like Galileo Galilei, had not decided to publish their scientific works in the vernacular rather than Latin, thus making them available to a wider public.... Henri
