On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system. > > > > ~# aptitude install base-config > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information... Done > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > > bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtkspell0 logjam pan > > [snip] > > The following packages will be upgraded: > > base-config > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 43 not upgraded. > > Need to get 126kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be freed. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] n > > Abort. > > > > Why does aptitude want to remove those packages? For example, > > pan (which I installed from sid) is installed correctly. > > > > # dpkg -l |grep ' pan ' > > ii pan 0.14.0-3 A Newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like > > These packages were pulled in by dependencies of other packages, and so > aptitude has them marked as auto-installed, and so will try to > auto-remove them. > > Use "aptitude unmarkauto pan gaim <etc>" (or the GUI) to let it know you > mean to keep the packages.
Thanks. However, one thing puzzles me: bluefish, gaim, gedit, logjam & pan are "terminal" packages. I.e., nothing depends on them. What happened is that they depend on gnome-spell, so when I removed it, these other packages were also removed. Is that a bug in aptitude? Ron -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Regarding war zones: "There's nothing sacrosanct about a | | hotel with a bunch of journalists in it." | | Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Retired) | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
