On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi! > > Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my > socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude. > > I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Me, too. > About a year ago I switched out Wicd for network-manager-gnome so that I could > make use of the latter package's ability to control VPN connections. I guess > that's the root cause of this little adventure. (However, IIRC, Xfce has > started > using network-manager-gnome instead of Wicd anyway.) > > This morning the usual upgrades included a gnome-bluetooth updgrade that > wanted > to pull in what appeared to be just about everything from the Gnome DE -- > roughly 117 packages. The gnome-bluetooth package was apparently on the system > because the network manager wants it there. > > This was easy enough to prevent. I just held everything while I got rid of > gnome-bluetooth and its playmates, then put a forbid on gnome-bluetooth. The > ensuing upgrade attempt was a lot more reasonable. > > I don't suppose this really qualifies as a bug -- particularly since > network-manager-gnome really is a part of the Gnome DE. But I imagine a few > folks who use it in other DEs are going to be a little consternated by today's > upgrades if they don't pay fairly close attention before committing to them. > > Thanks for reading my tale of woe (whoa?). I think this happened because gnome-bluetooth recommends gnome-control-center which in its turn depends on a bunch of stuff I don't need (and most of which is not on my system) and recommends a bunch more unnecessary stuff. The way I avoid what you saw this morning is to tell aptitude NOT to install by default packages recommended by other packages. That seems to prevent a lot of unnecessary installations. So I recommend setting that option in aptitude! You always have the option, after scanning what's recommended, to install what you want. Patrick -- 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/CAJVvKsPvMT5F97wQWXwFb65tdqQW5NtAMFhFyOoZD8G=kr0...@mail.gmail.com
