@mia @piggo

In another example of wierdness. I have Debian 10 and XFCE 4 onmy netbook, I recently installed

texlive
textstudio and
jab ref

one of these during the install processl decided that the xfce4-panel package wasn't needed, the result of that is that the top and bottom panels vanished, (thankfully the config was not deleted)

@zleap@qoto.org @piggo@piggo.space debian is very bad at handling package dependencies, so inexperienced users can easily end up breaking their systems by accidentally uninstalling packages when they just want to install some software or do a system upgrade

it’s part of why i never recommend debian-based distros

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I remember rpm from back in the mid 90s

package x needs package y to install

so installing package y
package y needs package x to install

hence the term back then of RPM hell

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