10-06-2020, 06:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2020, 06:28 PM by Sciancisco.)
From your description I will assume that you are using Debian.
The reason Image Magick is still installed is because the package imagemagick is a dummy.
Its sole purpose is to be more memorable than the actual Image Magick package: imagemagick-6.q16, it rolls off the tongue don't you think.
Anyway just type `apt show imagemagick` and check for the package it depends on then `apt remove <package it depends on>` and it should be good.
For the rest of your post, indeed that would be cool.
But I think their concern is that it would have to be implemented for each way to install an app: one way for apt, rpm, flatpak, snap...
In other words, the DEs do the desktop environmenting thing and package managers do the package managing thing.
The reason Image Magick is still installed is because the package imagemagick is a dummy.
Its sole purpose is to be more memorable than the actual Image Magick package: imagemagick-6.q16, it rolls off the tongue don't you think.
Anyway just type `apt show imagemagick` and check for the package it depends on then `apt remove <package it depends on>` and it should be good.
For the rest of your post, indeed that would be cool.
But I think their concern is that it would have to be implemented for each way to install an app: one way for apt, rpm, flatpak, snap...
In other words, the DEs do the desktop environmenting thing and package managers do the package managing thing.