anyone running Kubuntu & vmware, or kubuntu & codeweavers?

[Art Alexion]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 13:33, Phil Bieber wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Phil Bieber wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > Normally, aptitude removes unneeded dependencies, but this looks wrong,
> >
> > as
> >
> > > it tries to remove superkaramba... The rest seems like dependencies,
> >
> > that
> >
> > > are no longer needed on your system...
> >
> > I'm not sure why you'd expect many of those to be dependencies.
> >
> > antlr, db4.2-util, gjdoc, jikes, libgnujaxp-java & libgnujaxp-jni are all
> > packages one _might_ install to support other apps, but would be at
> > best "suggested" or "recommended" (this is true of almost all the
> > lib*-java
> > libraries, as they are rarely absolutely required, but always used to
> > support something else).
> >
> > kandy & subversion are standalone applications.

> Hi!
> Superkaramba was the first one that hit my eye that was definitely not a
> dependency. Subversion I do recognize as a standalone app, but I don't know
> kandy, which I only assumed to be some "supporting" app in the background
> ... And it was just a basic pointer as to why aptitude *might* want to
> remove an application...

kandy is a standalone app that facilitates connections to mobile phones.  

The bottom line is:  I assume that Derek's initial suggestion will mark the 
apps "do not remove", but if aptitude read my system this incorrectly this 
time, it makes me nervous to use it at all.  I'd like to think that after 
marking the listed packages, all will be OK, but how can I know?

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