Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
(Please CC me, I'm not subscribed). First of all, I'll warn you that I use Ubuntu. Everybody is probably tired of Ubuntu users asking for help here, but I think my question applies equally well to Debian. I'm struggling to understand the autoremoval behavior of aptitude 0.6.3. Let's say I

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-11 17:15 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: First of all, I'll warn you that I use Ubuntu. Everybody is probably tired of Ubuntu users asking for help here, but I think my question applies equally well to Debian. Yes, and I can reproduce your problem in Debian. I'm struggling to

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Arthur Machlas
I'm struggling to understand the autoremoval behavior of aptitude 0.6.3. Let's say I have a virtual package A provided by A1 and AFAIK, it gets autoremoved it it was automatically installed AND if there are no other packages on the system that depend AND/OR recommend it, depending on your

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87lj64k59x@turtle.gmx.de, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-11 17:15 +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote: $ aptitude install gcc-4.5 The following NEW packages will be installed: cpp-4.5{a} gcc-4.5 libmpc2{a} *Snip* $ aptitude remove gcc-4.5 The following packages will be REMOVED:

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Monday October 11 2010 19:28:42 Sven Joachim wrote: Not necessarily. There may be other packages which depend on C | B, and previously you had C installed but not B. In this case B is not unused. Right, I didn't think of that. Thanks for clarifying. Now this is interesting. Although

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Gard Spreemann
On Monday October 11 2010 19:52:35 Arthur Machlas wrote: Does aptitude purge ~c get rid of them though? No, it doesn't. -- Gard Spreemann spree...@math.ntnu.no, spree...@pvv.ntnu.no, gspreem...@gmail.com http://folk.ntnu.no/spreeman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed