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aptitude loosing its mind?



Hi,

Thought the advice was to use aptitude because it will remove unused packages...  Well
it seems to think xfs is unused, guess that ps is must be wrong...  Me thinks I'll revert to 
apt-get - aptitude seems very broken.  

Anyone else see this sort of error on pure64?
Ed

grover:/usr/bin# aptitude upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  xfs xfwp xnest xvfb
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cpp-3.3 g++-3.3 gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gij-3.3 ifupdown imagemagick
  libgcj-common libgcj4 libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libmagick++6 libmagick6
  libobjc1 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev perlmagick tora
18 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 10.6MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
grover:/usr/bin# ps -ef | grep xfs
root      4793     1  0 15:29 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
root      7452  7334  0 16:37 pts/1    00:00:00 grep xfs



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