Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny
On 2008-04-14 17:28 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/14/08 10:15, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> There is also a command called grep-excuses which might be useful. See its
>> man page for more info.
>>
>> $grep-excuses nvidia-graphics-drivers
>
> This seems to be a great tool. Too bad it wants to pull in World +
> Dog...
>
> # apt-get install devscripts
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no
> longer required:
> totem-mozilla
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> cvs cvs-buildpackage debian-keyring debian-maintainers
> diffstat dupload equivs libauthen-sasl-perl
> libclass-accessor-perl libdevel-symdump-perl
> libfile-basedir-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl
> libparse-debcontrol-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
> libpod-coverage-perl libpod-escapes-perl libpod-simple-perl
> libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl libtie-ixhash-perl
> libxml-simple-perl lintian patchutils wdiff
> Suggested packages:
> devscripts-el libgssapi-perl binutils-multiarch
> libtext-template-perl
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> cvs cvs-buildpackage debian-keyring debian-maintainers
> devscripts diffstat dupload equivs libauthen-sasl-perl
> libclass-accessor-perl libdevel-symdump-perl
> libfile-basedir-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl
> libparse-debcontrol-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
> libpod-coverage-perl libpod-escapes-perl libpod-simple-perl
> libterm-size-perl libtest-pod-perl libtie-ixhash-perl
> libxml-simple-perl lintian patchutils wdiff
> 0 upgraded, 25 newly installed, 0 to remove and 341 not upgraded.
> Need to get 23.7MB/24.3MB of archives.
> After this operation, 36.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
You know that all these packages are just recommendations and you do not
need to install all (not even any) of them?
Sven
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