On Do, 2010-12-16 at 13:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 16 décembre 2010 à 10:33 -0200, R. Lemos a écrit : > > Since 1:2.30+7 gnome-core depends on evolution-data-server and evolution. > > Previously this role used to be played by gnome-desktop-environment, which I > > gladly kept from being installed on my system (since it draws too many > > useless > > dependencies). > > > > I think that there's no real reason for such a dependency. May be it should > > be > > downgraded to just a "recommendation", or gnome-core should be split in more > > fine-grained packages. > > The metapackages do not exist to fulfill each and every nitpicking > user’s need. They are here to cover specific use cases corresponding to > installation profiles. > > If the package selection doesn’t suit you, you are free to install your > own selection of packages by hand.
Or create your own meta packages, like I do. In any case, due to technical limitations with CD building, those dependencies had to be added, as gnome-desktop-environment was too large too fit on CD1. In any case, too get rid of gnome-core on your system, you just need to mark the packages it depends on as manually installed and then remove it; the following commands should do this: aptitude unmarkauto ~R^gnome-core$ aptitude remove gnome-core -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org