On Tuesday, 18.01.2005 at 17:39 +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:31 -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Is there any package, or command, that will go through the "depends' > > for a packages and tell me exactly why apt-get wants to install over > > 30MB of packages when all I am trying to do is remove ONE package. > > I have not gone through your list and tried to figure it out. This is > just the first thought that crossed my mind: > > apt will by default try to update packages where a newer version is > available. So even if all you type ist "apt-get install something", it > will not only get the the package something, but also fetch newer > versions of already-installed packages as if you typed "apt-get > upgrade". > > I don't know if this can be turned off somewhere. My personal > workaround is not to update the package lists until I want to upgrade. > So in the meantime apt-get won't even know that there is a newer > version and hence won't upgrade. But 'apt-get upgrade' isn't supposed to add or remove any packages, simply replace newer versions of older versions of already-installed packages. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' will play with dependencies. I also don't understand why an 'apt-get install' or 'apt-get remove' seems to pick up the behaviour of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in this context. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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