Re: aspell gets remove on OOo removal, why?
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:32:50 -0700
Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >>I wonder, why does aspell get removed here.
> >
> > Because it is marked as "automatically" installed. When there are (or
> > will be) no more packages that depend on automatically installed packages,
> > the automatically installed packages are automatically removed.
> >
> >>And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed.
> >
> > # apt-get unmarkauto aspell
> >
> > Also, you should switch to using aptitude; it is the preferred interface
> > to the apt packaging system since Etch was released.
>
> You answered his question correctly, however, if there is no longer any
> package that depends on it, why would he want to leave it on the system.
Perhaps because the package can be used directly by the user (see 'man
aspell')? I.e., it is not only a library, but also an interactive
spell checker.
Celejar
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