On Vi, 07 iun 13, 11:15:42, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> aptitude sometimes proposes removals of many packages even when this
> is not the case. A few days ago, due to the hplip upgrade IIRC,
> aptitude proposed to remove hundreds of packages, while apt-get just
> proposed to remove libsnmp15 (and i
On 2013-06-05 07:46:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei writes:
> > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them
> > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with
> > fewer removals.
>
> In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to
On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That does not make sense. Probably your
On 05 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei writes:
> > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them
> > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with
> > fewer removals.
>
> In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them,
>
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.
That does not make sense. Probably your package indexes are messed
up. Try running '
Andrei writes:
> Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them
> (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with
> fewer removals.
In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them,
not merely mentioning that they were no longer r
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:11:31 +0100
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote:
> >
> > "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses
> > dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required
> > dependencies."
> >
> > but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a l
On Ma, 04 iun 13, 10:24:28, John Hasler wrote:
>
> 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.
Not necessar
On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote:
>
> "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses
> dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required
> dependencies."
>
> but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a lot), be careful to
> verify first. So leave them alone till you're sure.
>
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 al
On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:56:15 +0800, Anthony Campbell
wrote:
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; parti
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 yo
On 2013-06-04 09:56:15 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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.
How? aptitude often wa
On Ma, 04 iun 13, 09:56:15, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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; particula
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:56:15 +0100
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 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; p
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; particulaly losing apt
would be a disaster. Anyone else seeing this beh
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