On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 07:09:29 +0200 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2019-08-02 21:36 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Installed Buster (netinstall CD, LXDE desktop ONLY, system-utils) in > > Virtualbox 6.0 on Stretch (sysvinit as init) host to test and evaluate. > > Firefox-esr, of course, installed by default, but after installing > > Google Chrome didn't need it anymore, so . . . When I apt purge > > firefox-esr, it was removed and epiphany-browser was installed its > > place. ??? Strange. Never had that happen before. When I purged or > > removed epiphany-browser, firefox-esr was reinstalled in ITS place. > > > > If I PINned both not to install, a lot of other files were installed > > instead like verious ruby files, zip, vlc, etc. etc. List is way too > > long to post here. > > > > Never, ever had this happen and I purged firefox-esr this way from both > > Wheezy and Stretch. It purged as it should have been with nothing > > added. > > > > Anyone got any ideas why this happened? Or is this a nasty, ol' bug? > > That's almost surely because of libreoffice, whose -help packages depend > on particular browsers: > > ,---- > | % LANG=C aptitude show libreoffice-help-en-us | grep Depends > | Depends: libreoffice-common (= 1:6.3.0~rc2-1), libreoffice-l10n-en-us, > libreoffice-help-common (= 1:6.3.0~rc2-1), firefox-esr | epiphany-browser | > konqueror | chromium | firefox > `---- > > So if you remove firefox-esr it will be replaced by by epiphany-browser, > and vice versa. If you uninstall both, apt will choose konqueror as the > next alternative which brings in all the other stuff. > > Here is the relevant changelog entry from libreoffice: > > ,---- > | libreoffice (1:6.1.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low > | [...] > | * debian/rules: > | - don't depend on x-www-browser, only "qutebrowser" provides it. > | Use firefox-esr | epiphany-browser | konqueror | chromium which is > | the order xdg-open (which is used to actually open the help) does, too > | (closes: #904022) > | > | -- Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:17:15 +0000 > `---- That was it! Purged "help" component which is optional by the way, to test if it was, and was able to purge epiphany-browser without any gotchas. Strange that Google Chrome isn't an "approved" browser. If you're going to have such a dependency, it should be general (that's the way I always tried to code) like System Default Browser or Any Browser. LibreOffice Help in 5.2 that I use in Stretch doesn't have the browser dependency. but since I never installed Help, I don't know what is used to display it. In any case, I normally have firefox quantum installed along with Chrome. So, out of curiosity, I'm going to test if that will satisfy the dependency, too. Thanks for your help -- without any dependencies ;-) B