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Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages



On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote:

> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below.  I do
> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also
> does not seem to see one.  But it still wants to install the package.
> Why?

Probably because texpower (which is currently installed) depends on it,
although texpower itself is being removed as unused:

> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   libgegl-0.1-0{u} (D: gimp)  
>   texpower{u} (R: texlive-latex-extra, R: texpower-manual)  
>   texpower-manual{u} (R: texpower)  

This seems to be a bug in the resolver.  Removing texpower before the
upgrade should work around it.

Cheers,
       Sven


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