On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:30:56PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Daniel Burrows: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +0000, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages > > > > installed (I don't use a "desktop environment") but apt is not trying > > > > to > > > > > > I suspect it may have something to do with some of the stuff "aptitude > > > -R install foomatic-filters-ppds" did. I'd never tried using that > > > > NB: passing -R in old aptitudes will remove anything that was > > previously installed because of a recommendation. It's probably > > Thanks for the clarification. I suppose I should report a bug on the > manpage: > > -R Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new > packages > > It says nothing about removing stuff that's already here. >
What if until you pass the -R you had been having aptitude include recommends as automatic installs. You haven't since gone and marked the ones you want to keep as manually installed. Now you tell it to not include recommends; it will re-evaluate the dependancies and mark for automatic removal of packages that are marked automatic but that were only installed to meet recommended dependancies. Where's the bug. Its doing _exactly_ what you asked. If you want more control, run the program without any parameters and set your options from there and see what it wants to do. Tweak as necessary before you tell it to 'g'o ahead. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
