[Gllug] just a quick question

[Andy Farnsworth]

David Damerell wrote:

>On Monday, 13 Feb 2006, Tethys wrote:
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>>Anthony Newman writes:
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>>>As someone who has performed `apt-get remove perl` on a Debian 3.1 
>>>machine, I can verify that Perl is somewhat critical to the operation of 
>>>a Debian-installed machine. Debian--. Don't get me started on Umbongo...
>>>      
>>>
>>Similarly, I tried to remove gamin from my FC4 desktop last night, an
>>app for which I have no use. In order to do so, I'd also need to remove
>>over 40 other apps, which I *do* use.
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>This is not at all similar to the situation with perl-base on Debian,
>which the package manager uses and which is marked as a "Required"
>package; ie, you are being told explicitly that if you remove this
>package the machine will break.
>
>It's not completely unreasonable for the package manager to have some
>dependencies. 
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This is very important to know, however, as I had a debian machine up a 
while back (ok it is still up) where I managed to fill the hard drive 
during the update of packages.  Should not be a problem except that it 
was in the middle of the update of Perl when it filled the disk and 
died... I could no longer run the update, even when I cleared disk 
space, as I no longer had perl installed...  The fix was to manually 
install perl and then run the update again with enough disk space.

Andy
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