On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:16:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > You can also probably remove the xdm package, but again I think it might > > > also get reinstalled on update. > > > > Why would it ? > > Is that a rhetorical question? > > I assume because x-window-system depends on xdm?
So if you removed xdm then x-window-system (which is just a metapackage) would also be removed. (Unless you're using --force-depends, but don't do that unless you're already a guru.) > Or if xdm was updated in a apt-get dist-upgrade? That would only happen if something you already have installed suddenly starts depending on it when it didn't beforehand, which is unlikely. Frank's quite correct: there's no particular reason why xdm should be reinstalled on upgrade, and you'll be told about it if for some bizarre reason this is going to happen. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]