Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which
> > had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs
> > packages.
> >
> > - I've never had emacs on this machine.
> > - A subsequent "dpkg -l" showed no sign of emacs.
> > - There are emacs debs now in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> >
> > So it was downloaded because something erroneously thought it
> > was wanted, but it was not installed because something rightly
> > knew it wasn't wanted.
> >
> > Can someone explain this to me?
> >
> Hi David,
> RMS was using his jedi powers to make your system install emacs but it
> seems your power overcame his suggestions! hmm.
Any idea how I could have got my power to cut in just one step
earlier?
Cheers,
David
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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