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Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr

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On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 08:03:32 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Vi, 02 aug 19, 21:36:17, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > Hi! All --
> > 
> > Installed Buster (netinstall CD, LXDE desktop ONLY, system-utils) in
> > Virtualbox 6.0 on Stretch (sysvinit as init) host to test and evaluate.
> > Firefox-esr, of course, installed by default, but after installing
> > Google Chrome didn't need it anymore, so . . .  When I apt purge
> > firefox-esr, it was removed and epiphany-browser was installed its
> > place. ??? Strange. Never had that happen before.  When I purged or
> > removed epiphany-browser, firefox-esr was reinstalled in ITS place.
> > 
> > If I PINned both not to install, a lot of other files were installed
> > instead like verious ruby files, zip, vlc, etc. etc.  List is way too
> > long to post here.
> > 
> > Never, ever had this happen and I purged firefox-esr this way from both
> > Wheezy and Stretch.  It purged as it should have been with nothing
> > added.
> > 
> > Anyone got any ideas why this happened?  Or is this a nasty, ol' bug?  
> 
> The package firefox-esr has:
> 
> Provides: gnome-www-browser, www-browser
> 
> which are "virtual packages" used in dependencies of other package to 
> express they need a functionality, but don't care about the specific 
> implementation.
> 
> Most likely something in your system depends on one or both virtual 
> packages, so apt is installing another package providing the virtual 
> package to satisfy the dependency.
> 
> The alternative would be to remove large portions of your system.

It was LibreOffice-help-en-us that was causing the problem due to
specifically listed browser dependencies.  I purged the Help component
to test, and was able to remove both browsers with no problems.

Thanks for your input.

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Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Patrick Bartek <patrick.bartek@gmail.com> - 2019-08-03 07:00 +0200
  Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-03 07:10 +0200
    Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-08-03 18:10 +0200
      Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-03 18:40 +0200
        Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-08-03 22:00 +0200
  Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-08-03 07:10 +0200
    Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-08-03 18:20 +0200

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