On 04 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > > Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these... > > So don't. It's merely informing you that those packages were > automatically installed as dependencies and that no packages depending > on them remain. If you don't want to see the message mark the packages > as manually-installed. > > Because any developer can upload anything to Sid at any time without > regard to dependencies it is not unusual to get funny-looking results > when trying to install from it. If you want to run Sid you need to > understand a bit about the package-management system. Read the man > pages for apt, dpkg, & friends. You also sometimes need to wait a bit > before installing a new package. > -- > John Hasler >
I do understand this. I've been using Sid for years (literally). But although it's quite common to see a lot of necessary packages scheduled for removal if you do dist-upgrade, I don't remember seeing it when trying to install a new package. > -- > 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/87zjv5kifn....@thumper.dhh.gt.org -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- 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/20130605065515.gb23...@acampbell.org.uk
