Re: Bug#61512: apt picks wrong packages trough dependencies
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:22:50PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
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> > Is it normal that apt tries to remove one package and install four others, in
> > favour of removing none and installing three????
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> If that is what the dependencies say is prefered then yes, yes it is.
>
That is 100% correct, and I fully agree with you there. Now could you please
tell me what dependency there is:
* that tells apt to install those four extra packages, two of which I am totally
not interested in (the ggi/gii development packages).
* that tells apt that one library, though I may have explicitly asked somewhere
in the past to install it, should rather be removed.
* that tells apt that mesag-glide2-dev isn't a good package to install, though
it provides libgl-dev just as well as the mesa + ggi combo does.
Apt acts about as inefficient as possible here (on bandwidth also, since
it's solution would almost double the download); don't just wave this away
telling that it is normal behaviour.
If I were truly malicious, I could file this as a RC bug, as it would have
removed hardware opengl acceleration, thereby breaking my system - but that
wouldn't gain me or Debian anything.
Note: I reopened the bug report.
Regards,
Filip
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