I'm having the same problem -- I want to install a few packages that depend on python without installing python (because actuallu I have installed python2 and have symlinks `/usr/bin/python -> /etc/alternatives/python -> /usr/bin/python2').
I want apt to stop automatically marking for removal things which have unmet dependencies, if I have explicitly marked them to be kept. Regards, Zooko -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux imp 2.2.18 #2 Sat Jan 27 16:20:46 PST 2001 i686 Versions of packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an hi libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.3-10 The GNU stdc++ library
