Re: Question about command-line aptitude 0.2.11.1

[iain d broadfoot <ibroadfo@cis.strath.ac.uk>]

* Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> 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?

no, it's sane.

they depend on a package, so they won't work without that package.

iain

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