Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal I told apt-get to remove gstreamer-runtime and gstreamer-plugins. It told me that libflac4 and libjack0.38.0-0 would be installed. I did not want this, so I aborted. I then told apt-get to remove all four packages, including the latter two, which were not installed. apt-get then proceeded to remove every gstreamer plugin (which was desired), along with gstreamer-runtime, and libflac3. It then installed libflac4, after I explicitly told it *not* to do so. It would be nice if apt would not install packages it is told to remove, and not remove packages it is told to install (unless dependencies otherwise prohibit doing so). Partial transcript follows: root@stonewall:~# apt-get remove gstreamer-runtime gstreamer-plugins libflac4 libjack0.38.0-0 . . . Purging configuration files for gstreamer-sid ... Removing gstreamer-sdl ... Purging configuration files for gstreamer-sdl ... Removing gstreamer-runtime ... Purging configuration files for gstreamer-runtime ... Removing libflac3 ... Selecting previously deselected package libflac4. (Reading database ... 111079 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libflac4 (from .../libflac4_1.0.4-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libjack0.38.0-0. Unpacking libjack0.38.0-0 (from .../libjack0.38.0-0_0.38.0-2_i386.deb) ... Setting up libflac4 (1.0.4-3) ... Setting up libjack0.38.0-0 (0.38.0-2) ... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux stonewall 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information -- Brian M. Carlson <karlsson@hal-pc.org> <http://decoy.wox.org/~bmc> 0x560553E7 A mushroom cloud has no silver lining.
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