Re: Aptitude insists to install dummy packages

["][" <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:51:03 +0000, ][ wrote:

> When I checked Aptitude's internal database using 
> 
>   aptitude install -fsD
> 
> I get 
> 
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> 
> mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) mplayer (C: mplayer-k6)
> sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils) 
> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
>   file-rc 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ... mencoder-k6 mplayer-doc mplayer-k6 ...
> 
> But mplayer-k6 is only a dummy package, and 
> it conflicts with mplayer [2]. 
> 
> Why aptitude still wants to install such packages?
> Why aptitude wants to remove my essential file-rc package?

aptitude was trying hard to figure out/fix the dependencies of broken
packages. the message is illusive. What's is really count is the actual
action that aptitude suggests at the end.

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