Removing a package should erase half the system install??

[Derek Broughton]

Jim wrote:

> 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 on Ubuntu?  Have I entered the twilight zone?  [I know I can use
rpm, and do occasionally - at least via alien - but really we DON'T
use "rpm" to remove ubuntu packages],