[CLUE-Tech] Debian dependencies

[Angelo Bertolli]

>How sure are you that it is actually removing all of Gnome?  Debian 
>usually has virtual packages called X11, Gnome, KDE, etc.  These 
>virtual packages are nothing more that a list of packages that are 
>considered to comprise "Gnome" or whatever.  If Abiword is in that 
>list, and you un-install it, it removes the virtual package, but that 
>is it.  Nothing else goes, and you haven't lost anything but a 
>virtual package that was just a list of other packages.
>
>I would guess that this is what you are seeing, but I can't be sure 
>because I don't use Gnome, I use KDE.
>  
>

I think you're right for a lot of these, but one I ran across:  
epiphany-browser wants to remove gnome-desktop-environment too.  Thanks 
for the suggestion about removing "gnome."  I'm going to see how well 
that works.

Angelo