On Lu, 03 iun 13, 04:05:15, Regid Ichira wrote:
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> gimp{u} gimp-data{u} gnome-accessibility-themes{u}
> gnome-themes-standard{u} gnome-themes-standard-data{u} hyphen-en-us{u}
> libamd2.2.0{u} libbabl-0.1-0{u} libfs6{u} libgegl-0.2-0{u} libgimp2.0{u}
> libilmbase6{u} liblightdm-gobject-1-0{u} libmng1{u} libopenexr6{u}
> libopenraw1{u} libpoppler-glib8{u} libsdl1.2debian{u} libumfpack5.4.0{u}
> libwmf0.2-7{u} libxklavier16{u} lightdm{u} lightdm-gtk-greeter{u} lxde{u}
> lxtask{u} task-desktop{a} task-lxde-desktop{a} x11-apps{u}
> x11-session-utils{u} x11-xfs-utils{u} xinit{u} xorg{u} xsane{u}
> xsane-common{u} xserver-xorg-video-all
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 35 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 91.0 MB will be freed.
> Would download/install/remove packages.
> $
>
> $ aptitude show gimp | grep -i ^auto
> Automatically installed: yes
>
> I haven't persued the full rdepends graph for each of these packages.
> There seem no other reason why they would be removed.
They are removed because they were automatically installed and now
nothing depends on them. Set to manually installed all packages you want
to keep.
> Thinking about it, all the specific xserver-xorg-video drivers that does
> NOT match my hardware seem to be automatically installed, and rdepends only
> on xserver-xorg-video-all.
Not quite. All xserver-xorg-video- packages Provides: xorg-driver-video,
which is a Depends: of xserver-xorg.
> Why none of them will be removed when removing
> xserver-xorg-video-all? I mean, none of them appear in the output above.
> Would one need to remove them manually?
Yes.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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