Re: installing dosfstools removes a lot of software

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

Sven Joachim wrote: 

> On 2009-04-11 21:53 +0200, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering why installing dosfstools would result in something like
> > this:
> >
> > node1:/home/joehill# aptitude install dosfstools  
> 
> Did you ever use aptitude before?  Probably not, because otherwise it
> would have suggested these removals in earlier runs.


I've used it before, but not a lot. Not lately anyway. Now that I look at it
again, apt-get was suggesting they be removed manually for quite some time I
think (apt-get -autoremove?).

> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Reading extended state information      
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Writing extended state information... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done         
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   dosfstools 
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   at-spi{u} dasher{u} dasher-data{u} eog{u} espeak{u} espeak-data{u} 
> >   evince{u} festival{u} festlex-cmu{u} festlex-poslex{u} 
> >   festvox-kallpc16k{u} gcalctool{u} gdm{u} gdm-themes{u} 
> >   gnome-accessibility{u} gnome-accessibility-themes{u} gnome-backgrounds{u} 
> >   gnome-core{u} gnome-orca{u} gnome-spell{u} gnome-themes{u} 
> >   gnome-themes-extras{u} gnome-themes-more{u} gok{u} gtk2-engines-pixbuf{u} 
> >   gtk2-engines-smooth{u} gucharmap{u} hal-cups-utils{u} 
> >   libboost-date-time1.34.1{u} libboost-filesystem1.34.1{u} 
> >   libboost-filesystem1.37.0{u} libboost-python1.37.0{u} 
> >   libboost-system1.37.0{u} libboost-thread1.34.1{u} 
> >   libboost-thread1.37.0{u} libbrlapi0.5{u} libcucul0{u} libcupsys2{u} 
> >   libdmx1{u} libdvdread3{u} libespeak1{u} libestools1.2{u} 
> >   libevolution3.0-cil{u} libfame-0.9{u} libfarsight0.1-3{u} 
> >   libgail-gnome-module{u} libgavl0{u} libgdl-1-0{u} libgdl-1-common{u} 
> >   libgksu1.2-0{u} libgksuui1.0-1{u} libgnome-speech7{u} libgnomevfs2-bin{u} 
> >   libkpathsea4{u} libmjpegtools0{u} libportaudio2{u} libpvm3{u} 
> >   libraw1394-8{u} libsoup2.2-8{u} libtorrent-rasterbar2{u} libvlc0{u} 
> >   libxevie1{u} libxosd2{u} mousetweaks{u} pvm{u} python-brlapi{u} 
> >   python-cups{u} python-cupsutils{u} python-gnome2-extras{u} 
> >   python-gtkspell{u} python-libtorrent{u} python-numeric{u} 
> >   python-openssl{u} python-pkg-resources{u} python-pyatspi{u} 
> >   python-pyogg{u} serpentine{u} software-properties-gtk{u} 
> >   swfdec-mozilla{u} system-config-printer{u} telepathy-stream-engine{u} 
> >   transmission-common{u} transmission-gtk{u} update-manager{u} 
> >   update-notifier{u} vino{u}   
> 
> All these packages are "unused" which means that they were automatically
> installed and no manually installed package depends on them.

I'm not sure...I use Transmission quite a bit, and libdvdread3 sounds pretty
important. Also, isn't update-manager kind of important? Or are these old
versions or something? 

> One of the differences between apt-get and aptitude is that aptitude
> removes unused packages by default, but in both programs you can change
> the behavior.

Gotcha, thanks for the info :-)

-- 
J