Re: How to tell WHY apt wants to install so many packages

[Marc Sherman <msherman@projectile.ca>]

> For instance, apt wants to install "poster". Why? The only package
> that depends on "poster", according to "apt-cache rdepends poster" is
> kdeprint, which I do not have installed, and, while it is showing up
> as suggested when I do "apt-get --purge remove kdewallpapers" it is
> NOT being installed. So why is "poster" being installed?

Could this possibly be the same thing as this apt bug?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=89035&archive=yes

I filed that bug in 2001, but neither I nor the apt maintainers could 
replicate it, so the bug got closed two years later.

- Marc