Sebastian, Thanks for the explanation - glad to know that it was an intentional change between Hardy and Intrepid.
However, I am afraid there is still a problem. Having been using the package system for over a year now, I do expect it itself to remain stable and reliable, and I have found out various ways to get out of dependency problems. This one has me stumped, though. Here's the problem, in a nutshell: evolution can be removed; evolution- dataserver-common cannot, as gnome-panel and gnome-applets depend on it. In between there is evolution-dataserver, and that's where I have problems. I can remove it, and remove spamassassin and spamc, gnome- pilot and gnome-pilot-conduits. Syanptic allows this; nothing else is removed; there are no warnings, nothing breaks. BUT as soon as (any of) those five packages are removed, update-manager flashes on a notification that they have to be re-installed. I've tried updating, upgrading, removing, in various orders. Nothing leaves me in a stable state without those five packages. Somewhere the update-manager system knows that they HAVE to be installed. THAT is what I'm concerned about, and what I would like fixed if at all possible. I've tried looking at the dependencies of all five packages, without seeing any logical reason why they all have to be installed. I suspect it's a fairly deep inverse dependency problem, where a system library like libc6 has been marked as depending on them, rather than the other way round. -- evolution requires spamassassin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236360 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
