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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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