<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi,<br>I'm not sure this is valid to all pakcages system, and i never seen this be discussed here if so just ignore...<br>Well on Debian and Ubuntu we have meta packages, those packages that installs a set o packages automaticaly for you. For example a gnome-desktop package should install everything that is need to run a gnome environment plus gain, xchat ... <br>The "problem" is that all this packages that gnome-desktop installed are "tagged" as automaticaly installed {a}, this way when you remove gnome-desktop, all the packages marked as automaticaly installed that aren't in use for any other package got uninstalled.<br>So if you decide that you don't want xchat anymore, and you try to remove xchat, you will broke the gnome-desktop dependencies, and as you cannot have broken deps gnome-desktop need to be removed along with gain.<br>Now just remember when i said about removing gnome-desktop... :(<br>The solution for a user that really want's his gnome-desktop is to unmark all packages that gnome-desktop depends(ie aptitude umarkauto gain .. ).<br><br>Well packagekit can make this task easy if it asks if the user really want to uninstall all automarked packages, as it sees that they are been automaticaly uninstalled.<br><br>Well as i said not sure about other system packages, just thought this is somehow important.<br><br>Daniel.<br></div></div></div><br> <hr size=1>Abra sua conta no <a href="http://br.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/mail/*http://br.mail.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Mail</a>, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! </body></html>