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#200 Allow uninstalling Bundle-kde or Bundle-gnome directly
When trying to remove Gnome from my system today, I noticed
there's no easy way to do this. I installed Gnome through
bundle-gnome but it's impossible to do a remove bundle-gnome.
Via IRC came the suggestion to remove --recursive
libgnome2-shlibs, but this doesn't remove all the packages
bundle-gnome installs.
I feel it's a rather ugly workaround for something that should be
easy, and It would be nice to be able to remove bundle packages.
Thanks!
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This scarcely seems appropriate for this tracker, since it doesn't deal with the
fink tool at all.
This could be handled with a dummy package that everything in KDE or GNOME
depends on, which would then be removed via apt-get or fink remove --
recursive; or it could be handled via a package that conflicts with everything in
KDE or GNOME, and whose installation causes them to be removed.
There are other options, most likely, but none of them involve mucking around
with the fink tool.
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gnome actually has a package such as akh describes:
gnome-base -- GNOME Removal convenience package
Alas, current gnome packagers have been rather lax in making
sure it is actually set as a dependency in the correct
packages (hasn't been updated since gnome2.4; we're now
mostly at 2.10/12 and slowly migrating to 2.14). I suspect
that things that were once considered "just parts of gnome"
are now used by other programs as well, or at least ones
that are widely useful outside of gnome. If I say "nuke
gnome!" do I really mean "remove seahorse (a stand-alone pgp
key GUI) and all of the pdf viewer utilities?"
Same goes for kde...you could "remove kdebase3 and all that
depends on it", but you'll probably remove non-kde stuff
that happens to rely on some kde stuff:(