apt-get autoremove in edgy

[Foxy]

Lamanary Ramos de Pina wrote:
> once I tried to remove firefox and apt-get asked to remove thunderbird 
> and yelp as well. just to report.
> 
> lamanary
> 
> On 11/3/06, *Adam Miller* < maxamillion at gmail.com 
> <mailto:maxamillion at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not sure, they claimed it was "apt-get remove firefox" but they
>     could have gotten it confused. If I hear from them on irc again I
>     will ask.
> 
>     -Adam
> 
> 
>     On 11/2/06, * Matthew Kuiken* <matt.kuiken at verizon.net
>     <mailto:matt.kuiken at verizon.net>> wrote:
> 
>         Adam Miller wrote:
>         >  Foxy,
>         >      I was being told that when autoremove was taking things
>         out that
>         >  their xfce option at gdm wasn't usable anymore because it
>         apparently
>         >  took everything with it. They said it lists each application
>         one by one
>         >  and not just say its removing xubuntu-desktop.
>         >
>         >  -Adam
>         >
> 
>         Are you sure they weren't using aptitude?  That sounds like a
>         certain
>         feature that aptitude uses to ensure that unused libraries
>         aren't left
>         on a system when you uninstall a program.  Aptitude keeps track
>         of the
>         packages that you explicitly install, and which ones were drug in as
>         dependencies of others.  If you remove all the packages that
>         depend on a
>         library, it removes the library with the last application that
>         used it.
> 
>         If the person in question installed xubuntu-desktop with
>         aptitude, and
>         then removed a sub-package, thus removing xubuntu-desktop, all the
>         packages that had xubuntu-desktop as the only thing that
>         depended upon
>         them would also be removed.
> 
>         -Matt
> 
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yelp depends on Firefox, it uses its rendering engine... I am not sure 
about Thunderbird as it does not in Dapper