Bug#711322: Possible solution? (removing any gnome dependency suggests many autoremoves)

[Steve Cotton]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:37:59AM +0200, Andrés G. Aragoneses wrote:
> If "gnome" meta package consists of packages A, B, C, X, Y, and
> "gnome-core" consists of X and Y, then as far as I understand, a way
> to fix this would be:
> 
> - Make gnome-core recommend A, B, C (but still depend on X, Y).
> - Make debian installation manually install "gnome-core" instead of
> "gnome", when choosing the gnome flavor.

Hi Andrés,

Thanks for suggesting a fix to this bug.  But apparently there's
already support in Apt to handle this, and the suggested fix to
use that is in bug #719951.

Cheers,
Steve