Re: Removing all dependencies with aptitude

[Vasco Costa <vasco.costa@geekslot.com>]

First I'd like to apologize for the fact that by mistake I didn't
reply to the list (only to the author) in my previous email.

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Florian Kulzer
<florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> You can ask aptitude directly:
>
>  aptitude why libfribidi0

Thanks, this is quite handy. I should have known about this but I
haven't used Debian since over ten years ago (I have been using Gentoo
and Archlinux meanwhile). I guess it's time to read the aptitude
manual. :)

Here's the output of aptitude why libfribidi0 after removing mplayer:

i   libnewt0.52 Recommends libfribidi0

So, it is indeed due to a recommended dep like it was initially
suspected. I guess you were right and somehow Keep-Recommends is true
by default.

-- 
Vasco Costa