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Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

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On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:23:46 +0100
Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:

> On 23/10/17 11:00, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > Since I use a pure 64-bit system, I overlooked that only one of
> > imagemagick-6.q16 or imagemagick-6.q16:i386 can be installed.
> > I think it's better to re-install imagemagick-6.q16.
> > And then show the output when trying to purge imagemagick, please.
> > I think there must be involved a i386 version of some cups package.
> 
> Celejar answered the question in the first post. It's very simple:
> imagemagick can not be removed because cups-filters depends on it.

Okay, but why do packages depend on other packages that declare that
they are dummies and can be safely removed? Is this a bug in the
dummy package' description, or in the package that has the dependency,
or just unclear / misleading terminology?

Celejar

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Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 06:00 +0200
  Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-20 10:30 +0200
    Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 19:10 +0200
      Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-20 23:30 +0200
        Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 02:50 +0200
          Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-23 12:00 +0200
            Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2017-10-23 22:30 +0200
              Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 01:30 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-24 02:20 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 04:20 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-10-24 03:10 +0200
            Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 01:20 +0200
              Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-24 09:00 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 19:10 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-29 13:00 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-29 13:30 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-30 03:50 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-10-30 11:20 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-30 16:00 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-30 16:10 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-30 18:40 +0100
  Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2017-10-21 18:30 +0200
    Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 19:10 +0200

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