["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[email protected]>] > In <[email protected]>, markus schnalke wrote: > >[W]hen I issue: > > > > # apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.*
> >I wonder, why does aspell get removed here.
>
> Because it is marked as "automatically" installed. When there are (or will
> be) no more packages that depend on automatically installed packages, the
> automatically installed packages are automatically removed.
Thanks for the explaination. That sounds in a way logically.
> >And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed.
>
> # apt-get unmarkauto aspell
`apt-get' does not have a `unmarkauto' only `aptitude' has it.
However, if I issue:
# aptitude unautomark aspell
and do:
# apt-get purge ^openoffice.org.*
aspell gets still removed. If I use aptitude, it seems to work.
> Also, you should switch to using aptitude; it is the preferred interface to
> the apt packaging system since Etch was released.
I know. But it's a question of taste, to me. However.
The situation appears to result in:
Solvable with aptitude, but not with apt-get.
Thanks for your help.
meillo
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