Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800
"Michael M. Moore" <michael@writemoore.net> wrote:
> I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
>
> I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
> gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
> bunch of other things. I also removed evolution.
>
> But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
> I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
> are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might be keeping them
> installed, but when I selected that for removal, several packages I want
> to keep (for example, quodlibet, which is not marked as automatically
> installed and does not depend gconf2) were also marked for deletion. I
> don't understand why that would be.
>
> Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed
> and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the
> packages that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought
> I might be missing something obvious about the best way to take care of
> getting rid of a bunch of automatically installed packages relatively
> quickly.
>
> Any advice?
Try 'aptitude why some-package', and follow it up the chain of
packages. If there's indeed one package keeping in a bunch of others,
you should encounter it fairly quickly.
Celejar
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