On Thursday 26 March 2009 08:10:32 Celejar wrote: >On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:32:50 -0700 >Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>The original poster wrote: >> >>I wonder, why does aspell get removed here. >> > Because it is marked as "automatically" installed. When there are (or >> > will be) no more packages that depend on automatically installed >> > packages, the automatically installed packages are automatically >> > removed. >> >>And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed. >> > # apt-get unmarkauto aspell >> You answered his question correctly, however, if there is no longer any >> package that depends on it, why would he want to leave it on the system. >Perhaps because the package can be used directly by the user (see 'man >aspell')? I.e., it is not only a library, but also an interactive >spell checker.
Also because it may be Recommended or Suggested by a package he still has installed and uses. (Normally, auto-installed Suggests are removed and Recommends aren't but you can change either of those in your apt configuration.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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