Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 2013-06-04 09:56:15 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list
> includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common.
How? aptitude often wants to remove many packages (e.g. several
hundreds) when there is some broken dependency, while apt-get
has a better resolution system (e.g. only one obsolete package
removed).
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