vim-gome half-installs

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon May 15 01:17:54 UTC 2006


Karl Auer wrote:

> Hi Derek.
> 
>> > No, I did NOT. Some other package decided that was a dependency and
>> > installed it for me. I think probably the vim package, as it was
>> > removed when I removed vim.
>> Oh, stop it.  Of course you did.  I didn't say it was explicit, it's just
>> something that got installed on account of some choice you made.
> 
> Thank you for your earlier help on this Derek, but I don't need this
> sort of patronising pedantry.

And I don't need the insults - I'm trying to help you here.  You installed
ubuntu-minimal.  When you tried to remove something else, ubuntu-minimal
got removed too.  It's no big deal.
> 
> Implicit changes need to be made very carefully and very intelligently
> by software, and they should if at all possible not break other
> programs, other installs or other deinstalls. 

Where  did ubuntu-minimal break anything?

> I've just been through 
> what should have been a simple install/deinstall and have seen all
> three, apparently centred around ubuntu-minimal.

Sorry, but you're wrong.  ubuntu-minimal did _nothing_ to your system, and
none of your posts in this thread have shown that it did.  You're galloping
down the wrong track.
-- 
derek





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