On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:16:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +0000, John K Masters wrote: > > [... typical panic about removing gnome-desktop-environment ...] > > > > Just a thought. Being informed that gnome-desktop-environment is being > > removed would tend to scare the pants off most people, me included. > > Would it not be better to call these meta-packages something like > > gnome-desktop-environment-meta or > > important-sounding-package-safetoremove. Just my 0.03 euros worth. > > > > well, that's not a bad idea except... if you installed it with a > "removes-dependencies-automatically" package manager like aptitude, > its not necessarily safe to remove...
If I understand the meta-package concept right, the meta-package depends on the real packages, but nothing depends on the meta-package. Removing it would therefore have no side-effects. Or have I got it wrong? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]