On 07/16/2018 08:12 AM, Reco wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 02:43:18PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 07:08:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[...]
But it sheds light on this thread's original subject line.
It listed several packages [e.g. speech-dispatcher] for which I have
no apparent need. It will be educational to search out why they were
installed. [...]
I like "aptitude why" for this.
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:
richard@debian-jan13:~$ aptitude why speech-dispatcher
i task-mate-desktop Recommends gnome-orca
i A gnome-orca Depends speech-dispatcher (>= 0.8)
Can you suggest why?
I'm running the i386 flavor of Debian 9.
