On Saturday 10 January 2009, Mark Copper <mcopper@titaninterface.com> wrote about 'side effects of installing gimp': >I want to install gimp on an out-of-the-box installation of etch with >Gnome on an AMD64 system. > >#aptitude install gimp > >says 3 packages will be installed (gimp gimp-gnomevfs and gimp-python), >but that 91(!) packages will be removed. What happens if you just: #aptitude install You may have some packages that aptitude wants to remove because they are marked "automatically installed to satisfy dependencies" and nothing depends on them any more. They are safe to remove, but if you'd like to keep them you can use: #aptitude unmarkauto package_1 package_2 package_etc -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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