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Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

From	David Parker <dparker@utica.edu>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome
Date	2018-11-05 20:30 +0100
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Thanks for the information.  I guess I'm just surprised that the
dependencies are limited to firefox/firefox-esr/chromium.  Seems like other
browsers like Iceweasel are just arbitrarily left out.

    - Dave

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:01 PM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote:
> > Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on
> > firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome
> alone?
>
> apt-cache show gnome-core | grep Depends
>
> It says "... firefox-esr (>= 30) | firefox (>= 30) | chromium ..."
> so you would need to replace firefox-esr with one of those two
> alternatives instead of just flat-out trying to remove it.
>
>

-- 
Dave Parker '11
Database & Systems Administrator
Utica College
Integrated Information Technology Services
(315) 792-3229
Registered Linux User #408177

Thread

Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> - 2018-11-05 18:00 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-05 18:10 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-11-05 18:10 +0100
    Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> - 2018-11-05 20:30 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-05 20:40 +0100
        Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-11-05 20:50 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-06 03:20 +0100
      Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-06 16:00 +0100
          Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-07 16:50 +0100
            Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-08 03:00 +0100
              Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-08 17:00 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-08 17:10 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-09 03:20 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-11-26 10:50 +0100
    Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-11-06 03:10 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-11-06 09:50 +0100
  Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-11-07 20:10 +0100

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