On 09/12/2013 08:22 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Nope.  I have*only*  done installs (and extremely rare removals) via
> synaptic.

For the problems that I was describing, it doesn't matter what tool you 
use to manage software.  It's simply a matter of removing a package that 
another package depended on, so they both get removed.  In this case the 
package that unintentionally get removed is a package who's whole 
existence is to have dependencies on what constitutes a complete system.

There are hooks in the system to mark essential packages, and the system 
will warn you if you try to remove them.  It would be nice if they had a 
subset of that which would also warn you if you are going to do 
something that would pull semi-required packages off the system.

Brian Cluff
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