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Re: Removing firefox-esr also removes gnome

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On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:55:48AM -0500, David Parker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Debian 9.5 (amd64) and attempting to uninstall firefox-esr.
> However, apt says that gnome and gnome-core are among the packages which
> will also be uninstalled.  Does anyone know why Gnome apparently depends on
> firefox-esr, and how I can just uninstall firefox-esr and leave Gnome alone?
> 
> Thanks!

If you know what you are doing, you can also use equivs [1] [2] to
let the package manager believe that some dependency is satisfied.

As always, lying comes at a cost, the minimum being to remember what
lies you've told so-far :-)

Cheers

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_the_equivs_package
[2] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/equivs

-- tomás

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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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