On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:40:54PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude. > > > > Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that, > > because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base, > > exim4-daemon-light, ftp, netbase, nfs-common, ntp, ntp-simple, ntp-date, > > openbsd-inetd, pidentd, telnet and I install nbstmp. > > > There is a problem to running aptitude in my experience. Any time you > try to uninstall packages installed by aptitude on the basis of a > Recommends, aptitude may then attempt to uninstall _all_ packages based > on Recommends. [May because it doesn't happen 100% of the time].
Not just by Recommends but Depends too. You see big A if the package is installed automatically. That is the design of aptitude. > It may be that I'm just a dyed-in-the-wool dselect user but this > apparent feature has been enough to put me off aptitude altogether. You can avoid installing recommends by a menu entry for configuration. > IMHO, YMMV, etc. etc. Some dependency handling is said to be the best under dselect (at least strongly claimed by its author who seems to use it with dpkg-ftp. No APT on his machine.) Policy on dependency handling was written by him. So you are not alone and there is a man behind you :-) But I got spoiled with aptitude's functionality for search etc. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
