Bug#624478: xboard: You MUST have a chess on your system
Nigel Horne
njh at bandsman.co.uk
Fri Apr 29 14:36:42 UTC 2011
On 28 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Vincent Cheng wrote:
>
> Try as I may I can't get rid of chess on my system.
>
> Removing gnuchess INSTALLS xboard.
> Removing xboard INSTALLS gnuchess.
>
> apt-get purge should REMOVE, not INSTALL your software
>
>
> $ aptitude why xboard
> i gnome Depends gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)
> i A gnome-games Depends gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
> i A gnuchess Suggests xboard | eboard
> $ aptitude why gnuchess
> i gnome Depends gnome-games (>= 1:2.30)
> i A gnome-games Depends gnuchess | hoichess | bbchess | crafty | fruit
>
> If you want to remove both xboard and gnuchess from your system, you'd have to purge gnome-games as well, and get rid of the gnome meta-package while you're at it.
Could that restriction be lifted, please? I want to keep the other games, but want to remove chess.
Thanks.
-Nigel
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