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

