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
@mia @zleap @piggo
I couldn't disagree more. Every Linux distro I've used (excluding dom0 of Qubes OS, which is Fedora) has used apt, and it does dependency trees amazingly. The *entire* point of apt is to automatically link dependencies to their respective packages, and they are automatically handled during installation and removal. If one wants to mark as manual, so they aren't handled by apt, just use `apt-mark`.
I couldn't disagree more. Every Linux distro I've used (excluding dom0 of Qubes OS, which is Fedora) has used apt, and it does dependency trees amazingly. The *entire* point of apt is to automatically link dependencies to their respective packages, and they are automatically handled during installation and removal. If one wants to mark as manual, so they aren't handled by apt, just use `apt-mark`.
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ah ok, It may have been a glitch somewhere doing that
