On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:15:56PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I'm not really sure why not _all_ packages in that list can be marked
> auto. One interesting package is 'ntp'. I have 'ntp-server' installed
> and marked auto. It depends on 'ntp', but still I can't mark 'ntp' auto,
> doing so will trigger removal of 'ntp-server'... Maybe I should draw up
> the dependencies for the ntp-related packages to see if I can make sense
> out of this :-)

ntp depends on ntp-server which recommends ntp.

It's a circular dependency so at least one of the packages in the circle
must be marked as a manual install or else aptitude will remove the whole
lot.

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