Lamanary Ramos de Pina wrote: > once I tried to remove firefox and apt-get asked to remove thunderbird > and yelp as well. just to report. > > lamanary > > On 11/3/06, *Adam Miller* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I'm not sure, they claimed it was "apt-get remove firefox" but they > could have gotten it confused. If I hear from them on irc again I > will ask. > > -Adam > > > On 11/2/06, * Matthew Kuiken* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Adam Miller wrote: > > Foxy, > > I was being told that when autoremove was taking things > out that > > their xfce option at gdm wasn't usable anymore because it > apparently > > took everything with it. They said it lists each application > one by one > > and not just say its removing xubuntu-desktop. > > > > -Adam > > > > Are you sure they weren't using aptitude? That sounds like a > certain > feature that aptitude uses to ensure that unused libraries > aren't left > on a system when you uninstall a program. Aptitude keeps track > of the > packages that you explicitly install, and which ones were drug in as > dependencies of others. If you remove all the packages that > depend on a > library, it removes the library with the last application that > used it. > > If the person in question installed xubuntu-desktop with > aptitude, and > then removed a sub-package, thus removing xubuntu-desktop, all the > packages that had xubuntu-desktop as the only thing that > depended upon > them would also be removed. > > -Matt > > > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > -- > -=:Max:=- > --OpenPGP key: 5DBFA065-- > -- > xubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > > > > > -- > Having smoking und non-smoking sections in the same room is like having > urinating and non-urinating sections in a swimming pool. > Ross Parker > yelp depends on Firefox, it uses its rendering engine... I am not sure about Thunderbird as it does not in Dapper
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