Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On 04 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote:
> Anthony Campbell writes:
> > 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.
>
> > Obviously I'm not goint to remove all these...
>
> So don't. It's merely informing you that those packages were
> automatically installed as dependencies and that no packages depending
> on them remain. If you don't want to see the message mark the packages
> as manually-installed.
>
> Because any developer can upload anything to Sid at any time without
> regard to dependencies it is not unusual to get funny-looking results
> when trying to install from it. If you want to run Sid you need to
> understand a bit about the package-management system. Read the man
> pages for apt, dpkg, & friends. You also sometimes need to wait a bit
> before installing a new package.
> --
> John Hasler
>
I do understand this. I've been using Sid for years (literally). But
although it's quite common to see a lot of necessary packages scheduled
for removal if you do dist-upgrade, I don't remember seeing it when
trying to install a new package.
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