Stan Hoeppner schrieb am 14.10.2011 23:53 -0500: > The problem: > ~$ aptitude safe-upgrade > Resolving dependencies... > The following packages will be upgraded: > apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2.2-common > .... > This has gone on for many years, including when the system was Lenny and > Etch before that. I've always gone ahead and installed everything > aptitude recommends for fear of breaking something due to a dependency. > > I can't see how lighttpd or anything else would depend on anything > apache2. If apache2, any/all of it, isn't needed, I'd like to > completely purge apache2 from this system once and for all, and avoid > aptitude safe-upgrade wanting to constantly install apache2 related > packages. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. > You could check with:
aptitude why $packagename and/or in combination with --show-summary (there is an example in the man page). Another proposal is: apt-cache rdepends $packagename HTH Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111015090013.ga...@be-sem.de
