[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#805711: Bug#805711: Can't easily remove light-locker w/task-xfce-desktop installed

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Mon Jun 27 19:38:19 UTC 2016


On lun., 2016-06-27 at 11:58 -0400, Dominique Brazziel wrote:
>         Removing light-locker is non-trivial if task-xfce-desktop is
> installed,
> as all the dependency / recommends packages are removed as well.

That's not really true. Apt will propose to remove them because they were
automatically installed, but you can safely remove task-xfce-desktop, it's a
metapackage. Just mark the other ones as manually installed if you want (using
apt-mark for example).

Regards,
-- 

Yves-Alexis
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