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. -- CJ van den Berg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]