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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs



On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:57 am, David Jardine wrote:
> 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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