Re: Package system totaly a complete mess
A step before that maybe, to take further what Slavko proposed, to sort out
packages which are dependencies or recommendations of other packages which are
not marked "automatically installed". The aptitude command-line search can help
here:
$ aptitude search '~i!~M(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)'
will show any installed packages that aren't auto which are dependencies or
recommendations of other packages. From this list you should mark anything you
don't care about as automatically installed ("aptitude markauto ..."). This will
help the update process a lot. Be aware though that circular depends/recommends
prevents all packages in that list to be marked auto.
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Regards,
jvp.
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