Somebody SURE loves them some kblocks

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:47 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> >> Maybe run the the command line to remove the game and post the results
> >> so we can see exactly what is happening? When I try removing the game, it
> >> only wants to remove itself and the meta-package kdegames.
> > 
> > Wouldn't just removing itself be sufficient??? 
> 
> It would be "sufficient" - but impossible.  What do you think a meta-package 
> is?  kdegames has no content of its own (probably - I haven't bothered to 
> check), but has a whole list of "depends", including kblocks.  If you remove 
> one of its dependencies, it _has_ to remove the meta-package.  That doesn't 
> mean anything else needs to be removed (though if you use aptitude lots 
> will, because it's all marked as "automatic" installs.
> 
> > That's all I wanted it to
> > do, not dink with anything else, even meta-packages. It's scary as heck
> > to see KDE-FULL invoked and I'm not about to beta-test it's removal.
> > 
> > I may be ignorant but I don't want to be stupid. :) Ric
> 
> If you don't want dependencies removing meta-packages, don't install meta-
> packages!

I thought those were installed automagically as part and parcel to the
install process?? Owell... as I mentioned it looked scary as heck and I
have hit the "shiny red button" once too often in the past to not be
leery of it. :) Ric




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