Re: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny
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On 04/14/08 10:56, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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?
Maybe there's an ambiguity in what "*will* be installed" means?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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