[packagekit] automaticaly Dependencies

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:53 -0700, mirttex85-pk at yahoo.com.br 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?

> 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.

> 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?

Richard.