All package removed from adept during "alsaplayer-esd" installation

[Adriano]

Binary package hint: alsaplayer-esd

I attempting to install package alsaplayer-esd from adept in Kubuntu Edgy.

Select it and clich on "Apply Changes". After downloading packeges adept as removed all kde packages, adept package and more other wihtout confirm request and after this downloading "alsaplayer-esd" packages and install.

[sammiam (sammh)]

I too experienced something very similar. I had selected to remove cupsys-common because of problems that were created after my last upgrade. When I clicked the button to remove, a ton of KDE packages were removed without so much as any confirmation. WOW... left me with a TOTALLY useless kubuntu system. THANK GOODNESS I had just made a dd backup of my system and was able to boot off the alternate disk. This sure does not boost any confidence in the adept package system.

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

i can confirm this. i have an daily updated kubuntu gutsy system and adept removed digikam, kdm, etc etc when i only tried to remove the kde4base-packages. Before I installed these kde4base* packages, kdm did not depend on kde4base-data or something.

I asked on #kubuntu on IRC and "zeke" experienced that adept "took way more out" than just cupsys* when he tried to removed the cupys* packages. Afterwards he couldn't boot because of unwillingly removed packages, and had to reinstall ubuntu.

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

today again: i marked only kghostview for removal and adept also removed kubuntu-desktop

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

Sorry about that last comment: apparently kubuntu-desktop depends on kghostview, but i can't delete my comment made a few minutes ago

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Not reproducible on 8.04.