Removing a package should erase half the system install??

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/20 Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>> I was about to remove totem libparser package when I noted that it would
>> remove gnome games and a bunch of other packages that I would think
>> would have nothing or little to do with totem to the extreme of removing
>> them all. I removed an older version of liblua and it erased my entire
>> KDE install. What's up with all of those depends and why is removing one
>> package heck bent of erasing half the total install?? Is there a way to
>> circumvent that? Ric
>>
>>
>>
>
> do a :
>
> rpm -e --nodeps totem libparser     AND THAT WILL BE THE ONLY PACKAGE IT
> WILL REMOVE.
>

rpm? I thought ubuntu was a deb based distrubution?
I'm sure there is a "--nodeps" flag that one can use for the deb system to.

/ Jonas