Meta packages

[herbie643]

I just installed WPS and removed LibreOffice and when I did Mint themes, Mint Artwork were also removed.
WHY oh WHY?
What has LibreOffice have to do with Mint themes and artwork. Fortunately I had backups so no 'real' harm done.
I presume that somewhere in there is a meta package that has dependencies set for these actions as I could not re-install what was removed.

[Cosmo.]

You did not mention your Mint version and the desktop environment. If you don't know open a terminal and enter:

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inxi -Sz

Paste the output here.

I remove LO regularly on my test systems (LM 17.x) without the problem you reported. So far I cannot follow.

What stands WPS for?

[Mute Ant]

If you don't want to read the 'will be removed' list, you can render the auto-remove system helpless by setting your whole system to 'manually installed'...

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### Make all the installed packages appear as Manually Installed...
    sudo apt-mark manual $(apt-mark showauto)

With everything set to Manually Installed, removing any package will not remove any dependent packages it installed.

I use deborphan to find genuinely unattached packages, with no ill-effects so far...

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### Remove packages that the system will never use...
    while sudo dpkg -P $(deborphan) ; do true ; done

[herbie643]

Kingsoft Office or something like that is WPS.
I am running Mint 18 sarah with :
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.7.2-040702-generic
and that still beggars the question, "Why was LO removing themes and artwork?" Had to be a meta package somewhere because when I tried reinstall themes/artwork, Synaptic reported them as Broken.
OH, and as an aside, "Why the hell does installing SDDM bring in the world of KDE. I just left Antergos and was able to install SDDM with no KDE tag alongs.
So again, it has to be Meta Packages.

[Cosmo.]

With my command we would know your desktop environment, so we stand still in the dark.

and that still beggars the question, "Why was LO removing themes and artwork?"

It does not. I cannot reproduce the issue here on LM 18 Cinnamon 64 bit.

[herbie643]

Xfce 4.12

[Cosmo.]

I don't use xfce, yo I cannot judge myself, but I doubt, that this does make a difference.

You can test it yourself: Launch the live system and remove the package ure. This will remove all LO-related packages, but no themes or artwork. So there must be something special with your system.