> I work at a government laboratory where computer games are prohibited. I > also use the gnome desktop. When I try to remove gnome-games apt wanst > to remove gnome because gnome depends on gnome-games. This is really a > show-stopper for government use of Linux. Also, I would think that the > dependency should work the other way: gnome-games should depend on gnome.
I worked at a government laboratory where computer games were prohibited. We used Debian there; it behaved exactly the same way. Strangely, it didn't cause us a problem. The reason it didn't is because when you remove gnome-games, apt does *not* try to remove the GNOME desktop. Instead, it tries to remove the meta-package "gnome", which is not the same thing. You may want to google this list's archives on what meta-packages are and how they work. Also, because so many people use this software, any time you think there's a "major problem", suspect instead that there's something you're not doing right, or haven't set up right, or don't completely understand. That's not because major problems don't occur: of course they do. But it's *usually* operator error instead; and that's not surprising, since it's unlikely that with the hundreds of thousands of people who use the software, any one person is the first person to notice a major problem. Cheers, -c P.S. The meta-package "gnome"'s dependence upon the (meta?) package gnome-games is perfectly sane, given what meta-packages are for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]