<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: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">>>On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:53 -0700, <a ymailto="mailto:mirttex85-pk@yahoo.com.br" href="mailto:mirttex85-pk@yahoo.com.br">mirttex85-pk@yahoo.com.br</a> wrote: >>  gnome-desktop package should install everything that is need to run a >> gnome environment plus gain, xchat ... > >Sure, you can have the same in fedora (xorg-drivers comes to mind). >> 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. > >Is this an apt thing? yes. you have aptitude markauto|umarkauto gaim... when you search aptitude search gaim it will give like: i A xserver-xorg-video-intel                                                                     - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver Note the A meaning it was automatically installed >> 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. > >Well, if gaim requires gnome-desktop then removing gaim doesn't remove >gnome-desktop. No gnome-desktop requires gaim (part of the hole desktop) >> Well as i said not sure about other system packages, just thought this >> is somehow important. > >What's the use case? Trying to save disk space? not sure if I understood you point but save the user to be without a desktop, you know users like to next next finish, so even you you say:  Hey! say good bye to your desktop! he'll click yes, but a least he could have a choice to umark those packages that are marked as automatically.. Daniel. </div> </div></div> <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>