[Gllug] apt-get problem (removing gnome-games)

[Ashley Evans]

Chris Bell wrote:

>On Tue 17 Aug, Ashley Evans wrote:
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>>NorthLondon John wrote:
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>>>Now, here's another one: I'm trying to remove all the games bundled in 
>>>with the Gnome and KDE desktops. KDE was simple enough to deal with, 
>>>but when I try
>>>apt-get remove gnome-games
>>>it wants to remove  gnome and gnome-desktop-environment as well.
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>>>Surely gnome can't depend on the games?
>>>Am I missing something here?
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>>>TIA
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>>>John
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>>As doug said, gnome and gnome-desktop-environment are meta packages and 
>>themselves can probably be removed.
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>>You could maybe suggest to Debian's GNOME package maintainers that this 
>>dependency could/should be removed to at least bring it in line with KDE 
>>(or vice versa).
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>   I think that there were comments about this amongst the Debian new
>installer development team, the usual answer is that they only write the
>installer, they pass comments and requests to other package maintainers but
>they try not to modify original packages any more than they really need to.
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As usual with debain that makes sense. I was only on about changing the 
meta packages however, which are debain specific. 

If anybody who doesn't use debian is interested an 'ar -x <package.deb>' 
will provide a control and data .tar.gz.

In the control file there's a postinst script that could be used to kick 
off the gnome or whatever package selection process. Although I'd 
imagine the debian folks would say "that's what apt/dpk/dselect/aptitude 
is for". Just a though :)

Ashley

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