In <[🔎] 20090326201912.GU19730@serveme.schnalke.local>, markus schnalke wrote: >["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>] >> In <[🔎] 20090325104415.GO19730@serveme.schnalke.local>, markus schnalke wrote: >> > # 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. I think it is an excellent feature of the apt package management system. I am constantly stymied on my oS 11.1 install by packages that are installed that I no longer use. It can also ease upgrades. Unfortunately, it can interact badly with users that don't realize what is happening, and large meta-packages. There's been a couple of "aptitude wants to remove all of KDE" threads in recent memory. The latest one simply because someone wanted to remove the (rather useless, but small) noatun. >> >And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed. >> # apt-get unmarkauto aspell >`apt-get' does not have a `unmarkauto' only `aptitude' has it. Ah, well, I think: apt-get install aspell should mark it as "manually" installed, but not actually reinstall it. >However, if I issue: > # aptitude unautomark aspell Did you typo this? It should be: aptitude unmarkauto aspell >and do: > # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.* >aspell gets still removed. If I use aptitude, it seems to work. That's quite unfortunate. I'm fairly sure that there is a way to convince apt-get not to uninstall aspell in this case, but I can't remember it right now. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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