On 10.10.2008 19:32, Michael Flaig wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 05:46 -0700, Tim Ashman wrote: >> I so can't stand modest in diablo that I wish to remove it. >> >> I tried apt-get remove modest >> >> but the system warned me that it was basically going to uninstall a ton of >> other stuff that I actually still want. > > I would think that means the other stuff you still want depends on > modest and uses it in some way, or the dependencies are just very wide. http://mxr.maemo.org/diablo/source/osso-email-interface-2008.11.1/ossoemailinterface.h#39 probably explains what's happening. Arguably it's silly that that's a hard dependency; of course if the apps don't quite gracefully handle the lack of an email client to call then it's not a packaging bug. > ~ # LC_ALL=C apt-get remove --purge modest > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: > initfs-flasher kernel-diablo-flasher flash-and-reboot > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > camera-test* hildon-application-framework-rx34-rx44* > libosso-email-interface* microphone-test* modest* multimedia-applications* > osso-filemanager* osso-filemanager-ui* osso-global-search* osso-imageviewer* > osso-software-version-rx44* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 11 to remove and 8 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. > After unpacking 2572kB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > > Based on this output I would think it is indeed very unwise to remove > modest, because those packages above depend on modest directly or > indirectly. > > I'm guessing here, you can verify this if you like: > I think osso-software-version-rx44 depends on modest directly and other > packages like osso-filemanager depend on osso-software-version-rx44. > > To make osso-software-version-rx44 something like ubuntu-desktop the > dependencies on osso-software-version-rx44 need to be removed in the > other packages. just for the record, ~ $ apt-cache rdepends osso-software-version-rx44 osso-software-version-rx44 Reverse Depends: ~ $ apt-cache rdepends modest modest Reverse Depends: osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked osso-software-version-rx34-unlocked osso-software-version-rx44 libosso-email-interface osso-software-version-rx34 ~ $ apt-cache rdepends libosso-email-interface libosso-email-interface Reverse Depends: maemo-recorder osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked osso-software-version-rx34-unlocked osso-software-version-rx44 osso-imageviewer osso-global-search osso-filemanager-ui microphone-test camera-test osso-software-version-rx34 camera ~ $ etc. 't. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
