Re: Aptitude Wants to Delete/Remove Way Too Much
On 21 Mar 2004, Brian Nelson wrote:
> David Crane <davidcrane@mfire.com> writes:
>
> > I did an update in aptitude last night, and it now wants to remove
> > most of my system "because they are no longer used" or "due to
> > unsatisfied dependencies." Since some of those packages are used
> > every day, I must have broken something. I have not let aptitude
> > actually upgrade/uninstall anything yet. I am looking for advise on
> > how to reset aptitude's memory of actions to some safe state.
>
[snip]
I've noticed something slightly different: aptitude thinks that all my
packages are on hold. I now do a group + to reset this each time.
AC
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