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Bye bye edge (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I get the point, but there's for example Evolution which you cannot uninstall from GNOME without uninstalling the GNOME itself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Well at least it doesn't fire off background processes even if you don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, you could if the package was set up differently, or if you wanted to go at it manually. But they way the maintainers set the dependencies makes apt think it has to remove the whole DE, or at least a bunch of essential parts of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Can't you pass something like --unmerge or --nodeps so package manager will ignore dependencies? And then add it to apt equivalent of package.prpvided to tell that this package is managed by another package manager(you).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the point. Obviously you can uninstall any windows application too, it's just that Microsoft doesn't want you to.