Re: Naive newbie question [Re: Debian got too fat?]

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2018-07-16, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>> 
>> In this particular case the result of 'aptitude why' is misleading, to
>> say the least:
>> 
>> $ aptitude why speech-dispatcher
>> i   grub2        Depends  grub-common (= 2.02~beta3-5)
>> i A grub-common  Suggests desktop-base (>= 4.0.6)
>> i A desktop-base Suggests gnome | kde-standard | xfce4 | wmaker
>> p   gnome        Depends  gnome-orca (>= 3.22)
>> p   gnome-orca   Depends  speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8)
>
> I get a list in a different format:

I would say your format is the same, but your output is somewhat
different.

>> richard@debian-jan13:~$ aptitude why speech-dispatcher
>> i   task-mate-desktop Recommends gnome-orca                
>> i A gnome-orca        Depends    speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8)

curty@einstein:~$ aptitude why speech-dispatcher
i   gdm3       Suggests gnome-orca                
i A gnome-orca Depends  speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8)

> Can you suggest why?
> I'm running the i386 flavor of Debian 9.
>

I'm of the opinion we're all running different machines with different sets of
software, and this explains that (could be wrong, though).

>


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