On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:07:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 10/16/2011 5:02 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >> No need to be a jedi, just put care in what the installer is telling >> you. >> >> When you run apt-get or aptitude to install "roundcube-core" and you >> see a set of packages named "apache-whatever" are also being pulled, >> full top and analyze the situation. > > You may have the time, inclination, and knowledge to analyze and > troubleshoot such package manager issues when they pop up. At the time > I did not, so I confirmed and moved on with my real work. I'm a specially fussy person when it comes to package installation (I love having a clean system with only the packages and libraries that are needed) and that's one of the reasons I like Debian method of splitting things so much. Many people find it annoying and time consuming but that's a plus for me. OTOH, I never blindly trust what a computers tell me. Computers apply their own logic (which is usually correct 9.8 in 10 ocasions) but what they consider correct is not always what I really want so in production machines I take the time to read and stop any operation it is not crystal clear. > Regardless, the installer should be smart enough to know lighttpd is the > httpd installed on the system, not apache2, and only install what's > necessary for RC to run on lighttpd. Same for nginx, etc. And I agree. If you have a strong position over that, you can consider in opening a whishlist bug for that. > If there is some technical reason why this is not possible on Debian, > then I'd say something is seriously broken somewhere and needs to be > redesigned, so simple installs like this work automatically as they > should. Maybe is that we are expecting too much AI for a package manager. >> What's the difference between "aptitude --purge-unused" and "dpkg -- >> purge" or "apt-get remove --purge"? I'm not using aptitude so much... > > I use aptitude because the Debian team launched a campaign years ago > telling all to convert to using aptitude. I have no idea what the > differences are. Oh, then it's time to read the man pages. I knew about "--purge" but indeed never heard before on "--purge-unused". > I appreciate your help and pointers Camaleón and as a result I'm better > prepared to work around a situation like this in the future. You're welcome. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.10.17.15.10...@gmail.com
