Re: Bug in aptitude?
On 2009-04-16 18:56 +0200, Ben wrote:
> installation of package sendmail => http://rafb.net/p/CyyCc011.html
> purge of package sendmail => http://rafb.net/p/L9QeCU60.html
Please include such output in your mail, so that people don't have to
jump through hoops to read (and possibly cite) it.
> why does aptitude not remove all packages installed? The packages
> sendmail-base, sendmail-bin, sendmail-cf aren't depencies for any
> other package installed.
>
> Immediately after i installed sendmail i purged it, so the packages
> left behind are NOT depencies!
Probably you have some package that recommends mail-transport-agent
which is provided by sendmail-bin, so aptitude keeps it. The command
$ aptitude why sendmail-bin
will give you more information. Note that aptitude only removes
automatically installed packages that are recommended by other packages
if the options Apt::Install-Recommends and Aptitude::Keep-Recommends are
both set to false. See the aptitude user manual for more information.
Sven
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