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    Hey people. 

    When I do an apt-get remove on some packages, why does apt try to install
new packages? Example...

tigger:~# apt-get --purge remove scm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bonobo gconf libbonobo2 libefs1 libgconf11 libgnomeprint-bin
  libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 oaf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnucash* scm*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bonobo gconf libbonobo2 libefs1 libgconf11 libgnomeprint-bin
  libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 oaf
The following held packages will be changed:
  gnucash
0 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
Need to get 554kB/1508kB of archives. After unpacking 1865kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

    Thanks,

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <michael.soulier@home.com>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08
"Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using
huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love."
    -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming

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