В 19:12 +0100 на 14.11.2011 (пн), akirashinigami[@nospam] написа:
> Is there any reason Epiphany gets installed along with Java?

I suspect this is caused by the icedtea-plugin package, which depends on
few browser packages.

$ apt-cache  depends icedtea-plugin 
icedtea-plugin
  Depends: openjdk-6-jre
  Depends: icedtea-netx
 |Depends: firefox
 |Depends: <chromium-browser>
 |Depends: epiphany-browser
  Depends: midori
  ...

The problem is that the firefox and the chromium-browser packages are
not installable, so the next available is selected. 

$ aptitude show firefox
No current or candidate version found for firefox
Package: firefox
State: not installed
...

The chromium-browser is not in the repositories, because it has license
and copyright issues. 

Abrowser and IceCat have their own packages and icedtea-plugin does not
depend on them. 

I suspect that if somebody has midori, didn't install epiphany and tries
to install the icedtea-plugin, epiphany will not be installed. This is
an assumption.

I think there are two possible ways to fix this:

* Add Abrowser and IceCat to the dependency list  of icedtea-plugin, or
* Make firefox virtual package that depends on Abrowser and IceCat (or
something similar to that).

If someone experiencing the bug, decides to fill in a bug report, he/she
could include this information.

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