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Dependencies - why does a package installed later become un-removable without nuking the whole system? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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At times a package I install later on wants to take packages previously installed while going out. Some even try to take out core system packages. This mean trying out something is fraught with risk of permanently staining the installation.

Why does this happen?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Which distro? Which package manager? How do you remove them?

There are often options to remove a package with all its dependencies. If you hit that, depending on the package it'll try to remove half the system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

This was noticed in PCLinuxOS which has been my primary OS for many years now. This not from today so I do not have specifics here. The thought just popped in my mind after watching some video on YouTube.

Synaptic is the package manager front end for apt4rpm (I think)