On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:53:59PM +0100, Nelson Menezes wrote: > Jo Shields wrote: > >Alexander Kostadinov wrote: > > > >>I follow instructions to install xen and when I write > >>aptitude remove exim4 exim4-base lpr nfs-common portmap pidentd > >>pcmcia-cs pppoe pppoeconf ppp pppconfig > >>It wants to remove 501MB of packages most of which it says are unused > >>and one of them is udev... > >>I think this is weird. > >>Any opinions? > > > > > >aptitude has integrated orphan management, to allow for cleaner system > >management. For example, if you "aptitude install kde", then when you > >"aptitude purge kde", it will remove all the dependancies that came in > >automatically (whereas apt-get would only remove the kde metapackage, > >and leave the other few hundred meg of packages). Additionally, if you > >"aptitude purge" some dependant package such as kcalc, then the kde > >metapackage is removed (as the dependancy is no longer satisfied), and > >because "kde" is removed, so are all the other dependancies pulled in by > >that metapackage. > > > >Your problem is going to be that some package you removed either depends > >on udev (and is therefore the cause of udev's installation), or is > >depended on by something that depends on udev (therefore the dependant > >package is removed, along with its dependancies). > > > >There's a mantra to mark all current packages as manual (i.e. don't > >automatically remove them), but I can't remember it off the top of my head. > > You can also tell aptitude to keep your currently-installed packages by > pressing "=" at the top levels of the tree.
Wouldn't you want to mark them '+'? '=' would keep them from ever being upgraded themselves. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
