Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 2013-06-05 07:46:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei writes:
> > Not necessarily. The package being installed might conflict with them
> > (for good reasons) and aptitude doesn't always suggest the option with
> > fewer removals.
>
> In that case Aptitude would be stating that it proposed to remove them,
> not merely mentioning that they were no longer required.
>
> If I misunderstood and the OP meant the former it is most likely that
> his new package requires the newest version of some library. Aptitude
> will then propose the removal of anything that (directly or indirectly)
> depends on that library but has not been upgraded to use the new
> version. This is common in Sid and it is the reason packages do not
> migrate to Testing until all their dependencies can be satisfied there.
aptitude sometimes proposes removals of many packages even when this
is not the case. A few days ago, due to the hplip upgrade IIRC,
aptitude proposed to remove hundreds of packages, while apt-get just
proposed to remove libsnmp15 (and install libsnmp30 instead). So, the
problem is not always sid, but aptitude.
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