Re: aptitude unintuitive behaviour (bug resolving dependencies?)
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:19:34PM +0000, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> was heard to say:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:34:32PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Klaas Gadeyne wrote:
>
> > > So one of the recommends must be depending on or recommending apache
> > > 1.3, right? I've played a bit around with apt-cache --recurse depends
> > > but I couldn't figure out the culprit (at least not in 3 minutes :-)
> > >
> > > It seems like I might to add the --without-recommends into apt.conf.
> >
> > If you are in interactive mode you should be able to unmark a recommend.
> > I think you can achieve the same on command-line if you pass
> > 'notwantedpackage-'.
>
> I don't know if that will work. Unless you tell aptitude to not tread
> recommends as strong depends, it may automatically resolve these
> dependancies.
It should work. Recommends get selected when aptitude encounters the
package on the command line, and packages are processed in order, so
you should be able to cancel the package by "removing" it after the package
that pulls it in.
Another option is to type "- notwantedpackage" at the Y/n prompt.
Daniel
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