Jeff Rasmussen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Aptitude shows automatically installed packages with a 'A' on the left > side of the screen. If you highlight bluefish and press '+' you will > change the package to install which will 'manually' install your > package. > > If you use aptitude to install gnome-desktop, a lot of other packages > will automatically be installed (the rules are more liberal than > apt-get). When you select gnome-desktop to delete it will delete all > of the automatically installed packages. This behavior is > customizable.
Opps. I should have mentioned that I was using the command line. ie aptitude install java-package java-common when it tried to uninstall bluefish and 7 other packages. I knew about the 'A' but did not customize aptitude to automaticaly delete any files. Thanks for the reminder Jeff. Wayne -- "You can't make a program without broken egos." _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
