["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>] > In <[🔎] 20090325104415.GO19730@serveme.schnalke.local>, markus schnalke wrote: > >[W]hen I issue: > > > > # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.* > >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. Thanks for the explaination. That sounds in a way logically. > >And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed. > > # apt-get unmarkauto aspell `apt-get' does not have a `unmarkauto' only `aptitude' has it. However, if I issue: # aptitude unautomark aspell and do: # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.* aspell gets still removed. If I use aptitude, it seems to work. > Also, you should switch to using aptitude; it is the preferred interface to > the apt packaging system since Etch was released. I know. But it's a question of taste, to me. However. The situation appears to result in: Solvable with aptitude, but not with apt-get. Thanks for your help. meillo
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