Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Matt Miller wrote: > I just installed Etch on an old Mac G3 to act as a multi-purpose > server for my house. I'm having trouble with aptitude though. When I > wanted to install postfix, aptitude wanted to install something like > 109 packages! Many of them x11 related... I used apt-get instead. [..

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote: > On 7/2/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >mediawiki1.7-math depends on imagemagick > >imagemagick depends on libx11-6 > >libx11-6 depends on libx11-data > >libx11-data pre-depends on x11-common > > > >Add a few more su

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Miller
On 7/2/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mediawiki1.7-math depends on imagemagick imagemagick depends on libx11-6 libx11-6 depends on libx11-data libx11-data pre-depends on x11-common Add a few more such chains of dependencies and a lot of packages are pulled in by mediawiki1.7-math

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 14:11:48 -0400, Matt Miller wrote: [...] > I turned off recommends as dependencies with > Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false"; > in /etc/apt/apt.conf > and when I aptitude -s install mediawiki I still get x11-common and > other unneeded x libs wanting to install... > I

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Miller
On 7/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Run aptitude interactively (no parameters) and choose options. It sounds like you have the default aptitude behaviour of assuming that 'recommends' are hard dependancies. I always turn that off. I turned off recommends as dependencies

Re: weird aptitude behavior

2007-07-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:07:29AM -0400, Matt Miller wrote: > I just installed Etch on an old Mac G3 to act as a multi-purpose > server for my house. I'm having trouble with aptitude though. When I > wanted to install postfix, aptitude wanted to install something like > 109 packages! Many of them

Re: Weird aptitude behavior

2006-06-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 09:31:54 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > aptitude seemed to expand its list of alternate dependency resolutions > indefinitely today, during an upgrade in testing that involved lots of > X changes. Oh yes, it looks like Xorg 7.0 is coming to Etch. This is the new, modular versi