Bug#624478: xboard: You MUST have a chess on your system

[Nigel Horne]

On 28 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Vincent Cheng wrote:

> 
> Try as I may I can't get rid of chess on my system.
> 
> Removing gnuchess INSTALLS xboard.
> Removing xboard INSTALLS gnuchess.
> 
> apt-get purge should REMOVE, not INSTALL your software
> 
> 
> $ aptitude why xboard
> i   gnome       Depends  gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)                       
> i A gnome-games Depends  gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
> i A gnuchess    Suggests xboard | eboard                               
> $ aptitude why gnuchess
> i   gnome       Depends gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)                       
> i A gnome-games Depends gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
> 
> If you want to remove both xboard and gnuchess from your system, you'd have to purge gnome-games as well, and get rid of the gnome meta-package while you're at it.

Could that restriction be lifted, please?  I want to keep the other games, but want to remove chess.

Thanks.

-Nigel

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