Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Wayne Topa wrote:
> Jules Dubois(3f88o9g02@sneakemail.com) is reported to have said:
> > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > I just ran aptitude and it got "The following packages are unused and
> > > will be REMOVED".  There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which
> > > is bluefish, which I am using as I run aptitude.(?)
...
> > If you want to keep bluefish, tell aptitude you installed it "manually".
>
>  I didn't install it manually.  I had a total system wipeout about a

  AFAIK aptitude considers the package intentionally installed if you 
do installation using aptitude. Otherwise it will try to remove the 
package (if nothing else depends on it).

  to fix it just hit '+' (ask aptitude to install it) when it tries to 
remove it. From then on it will know you want the package.

  I guess the underlying problem is that apt-get doesn't differentiate 
between packages installed as a dependency and packages installed 
explicitly by user so aptitude has nothing to decide whether you 
installed the package.

	erik