Re: Bug#138721: Pin entries in /etc/apt/preferences cause `apt-get dist-upgrade` to newly install seemingly totally unrelated packages
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> apt-get wanted to install 9 *new*, (AFAICT) totally unrelated packages.
> I checked the reverse dependencies of these 9 packages, and the
> forward dependencies of the held-back and to-be-upgraded packages,
> but nothing pointed at any one of the 9 to-be-newly-installed packages!
Use the -o debug::pkgproblemresolver=true option which will help you
determine why those packages were selected. Something on your system does
depend on them somehow or they would never have been selected.
Jason
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