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Re: Why aptitude wants to remove zenity and xserver-xephyr?



Sven Joachim:
> On 2009-11-20 11:17 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
> 
>> I would like to guess why aptitude removed my zenity and
>> xserver-xephyr when I only want to remove hplip-gui. In its output
>> appear "{u}" , I think it means "because of a upgrade"
> 
> No, it means "unused", i.e. these packages were automatically installed,
> and no manually installed packages depend on (or recommend) them
> anymore.
> 
> If you don't like this behavior, you can turn off the automatic deletion
> of unused packages.  Start the aptitude TUI and uncheck the box under
> "Options -> Preferences -> Remove unused packages automatically".

Or, if you just want to tell aptitude that you don't want it to
auto-remove a certain package:

aptitude unmarkauto zenity

J.
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