• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well, you could if the package was set up differently, or if you wanted to go at it manually. But they way the maintainers set the dependencies makes apt think it has to remove the whole DE, or at least a bunch of essential parts of it.

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      11 months ago

      That’s the point. Obviously you can uninstall any windows application too, it’s just that Microsoft doesn’t want you to.

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          11 months ago

          Is this some AI generated answer? I refuse to think a person can talk like that.

          The “obviously” comes from the article which states that Microsoft allows uninstallilng software which obviously means they always could do that. They just didn’t want to allow users to do it.

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      11 months ago

      Can’t you pass something like --unmerge or --nodeps so package manager will ignore dependencies? And then add it to apt equivalent of package.prpvided to tell that this package is managed by another package manager(you).