Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty <at> sbcglobal.net> writes: > Thanks. That's the type of information I was looking for. I've heard > some interesting things about synaptic, like one guy was going to > install some software, and it wanted to remove quite a bit. It seems > that synaptic has a more comprehensive "I manage your machine for you" > design philosophy than some care for. Would you rather it just gave you an error instead? That's what yum does. Apt/Synaptic instead gives you a solution, which you can then accept or reject (neither the command-line apt nor Synaptic remove packages without asking, unless you use the -y switch). Kevin Kofler