Re: installation of a package requests removal of a lot of packages

[antgel <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

Edward Dunagin wrote:
> you know, i have following this thread and find it
> strange<g>
> 
> i ran aptitude update and then ran aptitude upgrade,
> and look:
> 
> HighNet:/usr/local# aptitude upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>   libsysfs1 pmount totem totem-xine
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   bash nano ssh sysvinit
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libgadu3
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove
> and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 63.3kB of archives. After unpacking 3871kB
> will be freed.
> 
> now i know that i still use totem as well as pmount.
> now WHY is aptitude trying to remove them?

Please don't top-post.

aptitude is trying to remove them as you probably installed them with
apt-get, therefore aptitude doesn't know that you installed them
explicitly.  That's why it's better to use it all the time.  If you type
aptitude install totem pmount, that should inform aptitude that you want
to install them.  Or go into the interactive mode, highlight the
packages and press +.

Antony