Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth <cwg@falma.de> wrote:
> Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>>> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to
>>> install some rather huge packages.
>
>> Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System wide
>> upgrade
>
> Thanks. I read section 2.3.5, but I don't see how this helps with my
> problem.
>
> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed
> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install
> texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and
> also (to my knowledge) not required or recommended in any way.
>
> "apt-get full-upgrade" wants to do the same, BTW.
Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and
you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in.
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