Re: Aptitude / Debfoster incompatibility?
On Vi, 03 mai 13, 23:07:50, Robert Latest wrote: Hello all, I usually use aptitude to install and de-install packages. Recently I've discovered debfoster and tried to use it to weed out unneeded packages. I got rid of some 100 packages using debfoster, but the nest time I started up aptitude, it wanted to re-install all of them (and it did, because I found no way around that). Strangely I couldn't find any mention of this on the Web. I've seen this recently as well, but with apt-get aptitude (not debfoster). Unfortunately I didn't have enough clues to investigate this further. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Aptitude / Debfoster incompatibility?
Hello all, I usually use aptitude to install and de-install packages. Recently I've discovered debfoster and tried to use it to weed out unneeded packages. I got rid of some 100 packages using debfoster, but the nest time I started up aptitude, it wanted to re-install all of them (and it did, because I found no way around that). Strangely I couldn't find any mention of this on the Web. What's going wrong here? Regards, robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMXbmUTZGrL3mO5Axb=hzpktl0p9zmmgxgv4-vkejq2kfuu...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Aptitude / Debfoster incompatibility?
Robert Latest wrote: I usually use aptitude to install and de-install packages. Recently I've discovered debfoster and tried to use it to weed out unneeded packages. I got rid of some 100 packages using debfoster, but the nest time I started up aptitude, it wanted to re-install all of them (and it did, because I found no way around that). Strangely I couldn't find any mention of this on the Web. What's going wrong here? Probably because aptitude and apt-get by default install Recommends: in addition to Depends:. (But not Suggests: .) I don't know but I guess that aptitude is trying to install packages that are used in Recommends: that have been removed. You can tell aptitude -R, --without-recommends to tell it to not consider Recommends: as Depends: and see if that fixes things. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
