Quoting Francesco Poli (2018-08-09 19:07:50) > On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 17:38:54 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Francesco Poli (2018-08-09 16:04:07) > [...] > > > I still have to understand why I had timidity-daemon installed on > > > that box: aptitude logs show that it had been there since long ago > > > (the oldest log shows an UPGRADE, rather than an INSTALL), but I > > > am sure I have never installed it manually. Indeed it was marked > > > as automatically installed, but no other installed package > > > currently depends on or recommends it. > > > On another machine with an almost identical list of manually > > > installed packages, I do not have timidity or timidity-daemon > > > installed... > > > > timidity used to recommend timidity-daemon (and some uses of APT > > wrongly flag auto-installed packages as manually-installed, or miss > > flagging them as auto-installed, or somesuch). Seemingly relaxation > > from recommends to suggests happened at release 2.14.0-4. > > Hello Jonas! > Thanks for commenting on this bug log. > > All this makes perfectly sense: timidity pulled timidity-daemon by > recommendation. Moreover recently, the recommendation has been turned > into a suggestion.
If I am not mistaken about english grammar... <nitpicking> either it "perfectly makes sense" or it "makes perfect sense" </nitpicking> > OK, this leaves me with the need to understand why package "timidity" > is installed on that machine, while it is not on the other similar > one. I am pretty sure I haven't installed timidity by hand... I cannot tell how your system specifically ended in that state, but timidity historically got auto-installed frequently (to me) like this: $stuff → libsdl-mixer1.2 → freepats → timidity My guess is that somehow (e.g. by using aptitude back when it had its own its own independent tracking of auto-installed packages which then got merged when APT grew support for that - I experienced some loss of flags during that period) your system lost the auto-install flag for timidity-daemon, keeping it around beyond removal of other packages and package relationships getting relaxed. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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