On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:22:50PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > > > Is it normal that apt tries to remove one package and install four others, > > in > > favour of removing none and installing three???? > > 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
