[conspire] When will came out the latest version of xxbuntu?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Adrien Lamothe (a_lamothe at yahoo.com):

> There are at least 11 other mono packages (some of which may not be
> installed), not to mention any programs that use mono. mono-common
> contains some core stuff and removing it will stop mono apps from
> running[...]

Normally packages that require a language runtime will get removed
implicitly if you ask the package tools to remove that runtime.  In
this case, I notice that the Mono runtime appears to be in package
"mono-runtime", _not_ "mono-common" (at least, on *buntu).  The
"mono-common" package is described as providing base configuration files
for Mono, plus shell support for running Mono executables from the
command line.

Here are dependencies for a typical Mono-app package, F-Spot:

Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1), libbonobo2-0
(>= 2.15.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.15.0), libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libcairo2 (>=
1.2.4), libexif12, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5),
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.5.2), libgnome2-0 (>=
2.14.1), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.13.0),
libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.15.90), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.3), libice6,
libjpeg62, liblcms1 (>= 1.08-1), libmono0 (>= 1.1.17.1), liborbit2 (>=
1:2.14.1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.5), libpopt0 (>= 1.10), libsm6,
libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6,
libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.26), libxrandr2, libxrender1, mono-runtime
(>= 1.0), libdbus-1-cil (>= 0.60), libgconf2.0-cil (>= 2.15.0),
libglade2.0-cil (>= 2.9.0), libglib2.0-cil (>= 2.9.0), libgnome2.0-cil
(>= 2.15.0), libgphoto2-2 (>= 2.2.1), libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.2.1),
libgtk2.0-cil (>= 2.9.0), libmono-corlib1.0-cil (>= 1.0),
libmono-sharpzip0.84-cil (>= 1.0), libmono-sqlite1.0-cil (>= 1.0),
libmono-system-data1.0-cil (>= 1.0), libmono-system-web1.0-cil (>= 1.0),
libmono-system1.0-cil (>= 1.0), libmono1.0-cil (>= 1.1.17.1)


Notice the dependency on "mono-runtime".  So, removing the latter in the
fashion Don suggests would seem the most efficient way to purge Mono
apps, if one so desires.