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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