Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +0000, "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> was heard to say:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:
> > s. keeling writes:
> > > Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
> > > understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
> > > try to blow away lprng:
> >
> > There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages
> > installed (I don't use a "desktop environment") but apt is not trying to
> > install them.
>
> I suspect it may have something to do with some of the stuff "aptitude
> -R install foomatic-filters-ppds" did. I'd never tried using that
> switch before:
NB: passing -R in old aptitudes will remove anything that was
previously installed because of a recommendation. It's probably
not a good idea unless you really want to do that. (in this case
"old" means "prior to the unreleased packages sitting on my hard
drive"...)
Newer (unreleased) aptitudes just don't install new recommendations
when they get -R; existing packages are left alone. (the old behavior
should be available if you pass '-o Aptitude::Recommends-Important=false')
Daniel
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