On Sun,30.May.10, 20:50:09, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 05/30/2010 07:57 PM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > > >The purge/install cycle isn't always an option, since in many cases it > >will want to uninstall all of gnome or kde. > > Sorry about splitting this into two emails, but the reason that it > wants to remove those packages is because they are "automatically > installed" either via recommends or depends. You can mark them as > manually installed with aptitude unmarkauto <package>. Sometimes you > can easily unmark many packages at once with aptitude keep-all (by > removing the package with dpkg so that the other actions are > "pending" as far as aptitude is concerned). It can also be that the package to be purged/reinstalled has (a lot of) reverse dependencies. If you know what you're doing you can --force-depends it ;) Regards, andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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