Bug#563712: Cannot remove Gnome-games, Cheese, Empathy, Ekiga, Epiphany, Remmina, Rhythmbox without removing Gnome

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 16/03/11 00:45, Milan Niznansky wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:16 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:26:33PM +0100, Milan Niznansky wrote:
>>> Do you really believe that a user uninstalling gnome-games wants to
>>> uninstall stuff like Liferea, Network-manager, update-manager, gdebi ..
>>> etc. ?
>>> Because that is what removing that "not-needed" as you made it sound
>>> "gnome" metapackage tries to achieve.
>>>
>>> Any other suggestion on how to remove gnome-games (or gnome-screensaver
>>> or ...) WITHOUT destroying the desktop environment?
>>
>> aptitude unmarkauto ~Rgnome
>> aptitude remove gnome-games
> 
> Well that fancy "unmarkauto  ~R*", kind of, helped.
> 
> So, eventually, just to remove gnome-games one has to:
> 1) remove "gnome" (totally counter intuitive, Microsoft style behavior)
> :/# aptitude unmarkauto ~Rgnome
> :/# aptitude unmarkauto gdebi liferea network-manager-gnome gnome-office
> shotwell
> :/# aptitude remove gnome
> 2) remove gnome-games
> :/# aptitude remove gnome-games
> 
> 
> But, gnome-games aside, I would love to know why is the gnome
> metapackage misused for installing completely independent stuff like
> liferea?

The real "only GNOME" metapackage is gnome-desktop-environment. This is
confusing, we should probably fix it for the GNOME 3 metapackages.

Emilio