Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
Incoming from Daniel Burrows:
> 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>:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > 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
>
> NB: passing -R in old aptitudes will remove anything that was
> previously installed because of a recommendation. It's probably
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose I should report a bug on the
manpage:
-R Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
packages
It says nothing about removing stuff that's already here.
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