Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> "Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick
> > from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1
> > pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser,
> > iceape-browser, and half of gnome.
>
> Both devscripts and djvulibre have some really unfortunate Recommends
> right now. I've been doing selected dist-upgrades with aptitude -R (make
> sure that you use the unstable aptitude or -R doesn't work).
That may be so, but why is aptitude claiming that www-browser is
pulling in things when www-browser is already satisfied?
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