Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:36, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > This is on a mixed sarge/sid system.
> >
> > ~# aptitude install base-config
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree
> > Reading extended state information... Done
> > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
> > bluefish gaim gedit gnome-spell libgtkspell0 logjam pan
> > [snip]
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> > base-config
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 43 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 126kB of archives. After unpacking 12.6MB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] n
> > Abort.
> >
> > Why does aptitude want to remove those packages? For example,
> > pan (which I installed from sid) is installed correctly.
> >
> > # dpkg -l |grep ' pan '
> > ii pan 0.14.0-3 A Newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like
>
> These packages were pulled in by dependencies of other packages, and so
> aptitude has them marked as auto-installed, and so will try to
> auto-remove them.
>
> Use "aptitude unmarkauto pan gaim <etc>" (or the GUI) to let it know you
> mean to keep the packages.
Thanks.
However, one thing puzzles me: bluefish, gaim, gedit, logjam & pan
are "terminal" packages. I.e., nothing depends on them.
What happened is that they depend on gnome-spell, so when I
removed it, these other packages were also removed.
Is that a bug in aptitude?
Ron
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