On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:34:52 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Francesco Poli (2018-08-09 19:07:50) [...] > > 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>
I think you're right, thanks for correcting me! > > > > 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. It could be, except that timidity-daemon still had the auto-install flag and timidity has it as well... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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