Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Severity: normal
When using aptitude with the -d flag, the text output is confusing because it
doesn't indicate that files will only be downloaded, not removed or installed.
Here's an example of what I ran into:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade -d
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
debian-archive-keyring dmidecode gcc-4.1-base gnupg gpgv laptop-detect
libcupsys2 libdb4.3 libdb4.4 libedit2 libfribidi0 libgnutls13 libnewt0.52
libpcap0.8 libpci2 libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 lsb-base
mktemp modconf openbsd-inetd openssh-client openssh-server
readline-common ssl-cert sysvinit-utils tasksel-data update-inetd
vim-runtime
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
libcupsys2-gnutls10 libnewt0.51 netkit-inetd ntp-server
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debian-archive-keyring dmidecode gcc-4.1-base gnupg gpgv laptop-detect
libcupsys2 libdb4.3 libdb4.4 libedit2 libfribidi0 libgnutls13 libnewt0.52
libpcap0.8 libpci2 libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6 libtasn1-3 lsb-base
mktemp modconf openbsd-inetd openssh-client openssh-server
readline-common ssl-cert sysvinit-utils tasksel-data update-inetd
vim-runtime
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libcupsys2-gnutls10 libnewt0.51 netkit-inetd ntp-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
adduser apt apt-show-versions apt-utils aptitude at base-files
base-passwd bash bsdmainutils bsdutils console-common console-data
console-tools coreutils cpio cron dash debconf debconf-i18n debianutils
dhcp-client discover1 discover1-data dpkg dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs
fdutils findutils gawk gcc-3.3-base gettext-base grep groff-base grub
gzip hostname hotplug ifupdown info initscripts iptables iputils-ping
klogd less libacl1 libapt-pkg-perl libattr1 libauthen-pam-perl libblkid1
libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcomerr2 libconsole libdb1-compat libdb3 libdb4.2
libdiscover1 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgdbm3 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1
libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libkrb53
libldap2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 liblzo1
libmail-sendmail-perl libncurses5 libnet-ssleay-perl libopencdk8
libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcre3 libpopt0 libsasl2 libss2
libssl0.9.7 libstdc++5 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtextwrap1 liburi-perl libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1
libwrap0 libwww-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-namespacesupport-perl
libxml-simple-perl libxml2 locales login logrotate lynx mailx makedev
man-db man2html manpages modutils mount nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin
netbase ntp ntp-simple nvi openssl passwd pciutils perl perl-base
perl-modules postfix ppp pppconfig pppoe pppoeconf procps psmisc rsync
samba samba-common sed setserial smbclient ssh sudo sysklogd sysv-rc
sysvinit tar tasksel tcpd telnet usbutils util-linux vim vim-common wget
whiptail zlib1g
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
aptitude-doc-en libcompress-zlib-perl libhtml-format-perl
libmailtools-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl libtasn1-3-bin
mime-support mtools perl-doc smbldap-tools xml-core
151 packages upgraded, 35 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 55.3MB/82.4MB of archives. After unpacking 27.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
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