once I tried to remove firefox and apt-get asked to remove thunderbird and yelp as well. just to report.<br><br>lamanary<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:maxamillion@gmail.com">
maxamillion@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.
<br><br>-Adam<div><span class="e" id="q_10eae91c92cc7d81_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Matthew Kuiken</b> <<a href="mailto:matt.kuiken@verizon.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">matt.kuiken@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Adam Miller wrote:<br>> Foxy,<br>> I was being told that when autoremove was taking things out that<br>> their xfce option at gdm wasn't usable anymore because it apparently<br>> took everything with it. They said it lists each application one by one
<br>> and not just say its removing xubuntu-desktop.<br>><br>> -Adam<br>><br><br>Are you sure they weren't using aptitude? That sounds like a certain<br>feature that aptitude uses to ensure that unused libraries aren't left
<br>on a system when you uninstall a program. Aptitude keeps track of the<br>packages that you explicitly install, and which ones were drug in as<br>dependencies of others. If you remove all the packages that depend on a
<br>library, it removes the library with the last application that used it.<br><br>If the person in question installed xubuntu-desktop with aptitude, and<br>then removed a sub-package, thus removing xubuntu-desktop, all the
<br>packages that had xubuntu-desktop as the only thing that depended upon<br>them would also be removed.<br><br>-Matt<br><br><br>--<br>xubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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