Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Jun 2007 16:38 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"We have developed a new package-management tool, called Opium, that improves on current tools in two ways: Opium is complete, in that if there is a solution, Opium is guaranteed to find it, and Opium can optimize a user-provided objective function, which could for example state that smaller
packages should be preferred over larger ones. We performed a comparative study of our tool against Debian's apt-get on 600 traces of real-world package installations. We show that Opium runs fast enough to be usable,
and that its completeness and optimality guarantees provide
concrete benefits to end users."
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2006-06-19
On Debian if you try to remove Evolution (obviously a Gnome desktop) than apt-get will try to remove Gnome. I emailed somebody at Debian about this, and he said that the next release will fix whatever caused this. Perhaps somebody has the technical knowledge to fill in the gaps of my very vague description. I don't know how Ubuntu responds under the same circumstances.
It will remove a meta-package (wrapper) called gnome that is used to install bunch of programs that they call (as a whole) gnome. In other words, it will not remove ANY programs (that I can think of) only the wrapping paper for the package called gnome.