Robert Latest wrote: > I usually use aptitude to install and de-install packages. Recently > I've discovered debfoster and tried to use it to weed out unneeded > packages. I got rid of some 100 packages using debfoster, but the nest > time I started up aptitude, it wanted to re-install all of them (and > it did, because I found no way around that). > > Strangely I couldn't find any mention of this on the Web. > > What's going wrong here? Probably because aptitude and apt-get by default install Recommends: in addition to Depends:. (But not Suggests: .) I don't know but I guess that aptitude is trying to install packages that are used in Recommends: that have been removed. You can tell aptitude -R, --without-recommends to tell it to not consider Recommends: as Depends: and see if that fixes things. Bob
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