On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Sparr wrote: >> I started with a fresh install from a squeeze netinst CD. During the >> install I deselected all tasks (the last one was selected by default, >> I believe it was something like "common tools"). >> I upgraded to unstable via apt-get dist-upgrade. >> I ran tasksel. The list of tasks was slightly different than during >> install, and Mail Server was already checked. I unchecked it, leaving >> nothing checked, and opted to Continue. Over the next few dialogs >> this resulted in most of exim4 being uninstalled and citadel >> (citadel-server in particular) being installed and configured. This >> behavior seems odd, possibly buggy. > > When you told tasksel to remove Standard system, it removed exim4. Many > packages depend on exim4 | mail-transport-agent, and apparently one was > installed during the same aptitude run. So, aptitude, having just been > told to remove exim4, is forced to satisfy that dependency by picking a > mail-transport-agent providing package at random.
During the original install it may have been "Standard system utilities" that I unchecked. Regardless, I still ended up with exim4 installed (which seems normal). The action that resulted in exim4 being uninstalled was the deselection of "Mail server" the second time that I ran tasksel (which again seems normal). The issue is that there was no indication that I was installing anything the second time, so the issue that I am reporting is possibly one of package dependencies but more likely just a user interface concern, in which a purely "remove" command results in "install" actions. If unchecking something in tasksel causes dependency problems, I think it is more likely that the user would want the original package kept, or the DEPENDSing packages removed, than some random third package installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
