apt irritating behaviour (fam and gamin)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:12:55PM +0530, Sridhar Ratna wrote:

> I had 'fam' installed.  I then installed gamin and gamin-dev, which
> eventually replaced fam.  But when I tried 'apt-get remove'ing gamin,
> it asked to remove about 115 packages including gnome apps ....
> 
> Even if when I tried to 'apt-get install fam' .. it asked to remove
> huge amount of packages including gamin.
> 
> I do not expect that behaviour.  If I installed a package (gamin) ..
> and immediately decided to uninstall it .. only that package must be
> removed.

fam is no longer supported; if you have a problem with gamin, please report
a bug (or follow up to an existing one) and help us to refine it.

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 - mdz