more user-friendly than Update manager?

[Mr Chris Aitken]

On 12-05-07 07:01 PM, DAVID CHIPMAN wrote:
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> From: Mr Chris Aitken<chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 4:15:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: more user-friendly than Update manager?
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> Sorry for top-posting here but I figured since my answer is so fresh (and I don't want you to hunt below for non-existent interleaved responses), I would top-post this once...
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> How about I run something like...
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> sudo apt-get remove *volution*
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> ?
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> Chris
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> Hi Chris,
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> If you do that, make sure it doesn't try and remove your deskop environment [DE] on you. Some of these things have become "plumbing" for the DE, and removing them would cause the package manager to remove the DE.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll stick to de-selecting items in 
update-manager and keep out of trouble.

Chris

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> IMHO, it'd be nice if programs tested for the availabliilty of some funcions, and simply disabled the features whne the underling functions aren't present.
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> Best of luck,
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> -David
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