On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:23:46 +0100 Roger Lynn <ro...@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
> On 23/10/17 11:00, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Since I use a pure 64-bit system, I overlooked that only one of > > imagemagick-6.q16 or imagemagick-6.q16:i386 can be installed. > > I think it's better to re-install imagemagick-6.q16. > > And then show the output when trying to purge imagemagick, please. > > I think there must be involved a i386 version of some cups package. > > Celejar answered the question in the first post. It's very simple: > imagemagick can not be removed because cups-filters depends on it. Okay, but why do packages depend on other packages that declare that they are dummies and can be safely removed? Is this a bug in the dummy package' description, or in the package that has the dependency, or just unclear / misleading terminology? Celejar