On Du, 08 mai 11, 20:36:48, Andrew Wood wrote: > Whats the logic here? Surely it should be the other way round? > >The problem here, I think, is that gnome-desktop-environment depends on > >empathy.
I assume you don't mean empathy should depend on gnome-desktop-environment, but wonder why removing one "leaf" package can have such an effect ;) The answer is quite simple: a "Depends:" relationship expresses that a package A can not function without a particular package B, so removing the package B will trigger the removal of package A. Now consider that package A also depends on C and D, and these were installed only as dependencies of A. Since the package manager considers that C and D are not needed anymore it offers to remove them. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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