Aptitude wierdness

[Christopher Judd <judd@wadsworth.org>]

Hi, all,

	I recently updated my wheezy workstation, with no apparent errors.  
Everything works, although there seems to be some degradation in the graphics 
(nvidia) like some others have mentioned.  I thought that it might help to run 
aptitude -f install, and I discovered this apparent inconsitancy:

# aptitude full-upgrade
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.

# aptitude -f install
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libarchive-zip-perl libclass-load-perl libclass-methodmaker-perl libclass-
singleton-perl libdata-dump-perl libdata-optlist-perl 
  libdate-manip-perl libdatetime-format-strptime-perl libdatetime-locale-perl 
libdatetime-perl libdatetime-timezone-perl 
  libemail-address-perl libemail-find-perl libfile-slurp-perl libhtml-fromtext-
perl libhtml-tableextract-perl 
  libhttp-cache-transparent-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl liblingua-
preferred-perl liblog-tracemessages-perl libmath-round-perl 
  libmicrohttpd5 libmikmod2 libmyth-0.24-0 libmythavcodec52 libmythavcore0 
libmythavformat52 libmythavutil50 libmythpostproc51 
  libmythswscale0 libpackage-deprecationmanager-perl libpackage-stash-perl 
libpackage-stash-xs-perl libparams-util-perl 
  libparams-validate-perl libparse-recdescent-perl libregexp-common-perl 
libsdl-mixer1.2 libsmpeg0 libsub-install-perl 
  libterm-progressbar-perl libterm-readkey-perl libtext-bidi-perl libtry-tiny-
perl libunicode-string-perl libva-glx1 
  libwine-alsa-unstable libwine-bin-unstable libwine-cms-unstable libwine-
gecko-unstable libwine-gl-unstable 
  libwine-gphoto2-unstable libwine-ldap-unstable libwine-openal-unstable 
libwine-print-unstable libwine-sane-unstable 
  libwine-unstable libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-libxml-perl 
libxml-libxslt-perl libxml-perl libxml-regexp-perl 
  libxml-twig-perl libxml-writer-perl libxml-xpathengine-perl libxmltv-perl 
mythtv mythtv-backend mythtv-common mythtv-database 
  mythtv-doc mythtv-frontend mythtv-themes pwgen python-lxml python-mysqldb 
python-mythtv ttf-tiresias wine-bin-unstable 
  wine-unstable xbmc xbmc-bin xbmc-data xbmc-skin-confluence xmltv-util 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  foomatic-filters-ppds{a} printconf{a} python-foomatic{a} xulrunner-6.0{u} 
0 packages upgraded, 86 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 121 MB of archives. After unpacking 300 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

I answered "n".  Since this box is at work and doesn't have a tv tuner card, I 
also did:

# aptitude why mythtv
Unable to find a reason to install mythtv

"apt-cache rdepends mythtv" also shows no reason for the installations.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on here.

-Chris

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|   Christopher Judd, Ph. D.                                           |
|   Research Scientist III                                             |
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