Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:38:51PM -0400, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Aha, why -v helped indeed. One note about it though: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bd] aptitude why -v imagemagick iceape-browser p imagemagick Dependslibmagick10 p libmagick10 Depends

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser, iceape-browser, and half of gnome. Both devscripts

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies,

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Russ Allbery wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser, iceape-browser, and half of

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:17:24AM -0400, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser,

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:05:24AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: One option you have is to run aptitude why -v imagemagick iceape-browser, which will show you all the possible dependency chains between those packages. On my computer, I get this (reformatted,

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recommend to always do an upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade (or install of something pulling in 200mb). The upgrade will never install new or remove packages so it is save. It usualy reduces the number of packages to something where the

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recommend to always do an upgrade before doing a dist-upgrade (or install of something pulling in 200mb). The upgrade will never install new or remove packages so it is save. It usualy

Re: How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-28 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 01:17:24AM -0400, Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version

How do I trace aptitude dependencies?

2008-04-27 Thread Bryan Donlan
Hi, Currently I have a situation where attempting to upgrade imagemagick from version 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-1+lenny1 to version 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b1 pulls in over 200mb of dependencies, including mozilla-browser, iceape-browser, and half of gnome. Using aptitude's 'i' command to attempt to get