Package: aptitude
Followup-For: Bug #486454
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:25:43 -0700 Daniel Burrows wrote:
> I never figured out what's going on in #486454 [...]
Hi, I just came across this report while searching for more info on
another issue. This is actually not related to the problem I am having
at the moment but I believe I found an explanation for the behaviour
the OP experienced.
According to aptitude(8) the option --without-recommends does the
following:
"Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new
packages (this overrides settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf and
~/.aptitude/config). Packages previously installed due to
recommendations will not be removed. [...]"
The second sentence of the above quote might explain why, even if
--without-recommends is set, recommendations are not removed. The OP
installed emacs and aptitude took care of the dependencies which in
turn get marked as automatically installed. When emacs was purged
there were other packages still installed which recommend
emacs22-common. So aptitude looks at the auto flag and cannot
distinguish if it was set due to a recommendation or a dependency
since this information is not saved.
Just my 2¢, hope it helps.
Marcus
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 kompiliert am Nov 20 2008 05:11:32
Compiler: g++ 4.3.2
Kompiliert gegen:
apt-Version 4.6.0
NCurses-Version: 5.7
libsigc++-Version: 2.0.18
Ept-Unterstützung aktiviert.
Aktuelle Bibliotheksversion:
NCurses-Version: ncurses 5.7.20090228
cwidget-Version: 0.5.12
Apt-Version: 4.6.0
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffa79ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0x00007f0b9f439000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f0b9f1ee000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f0b9efe9000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f0b9ed16000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f0b9ea9d000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f0b9e731000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0b9e51a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f0b9e2ff000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f0b9dff3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f0b9dd70000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f0b9db59000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f0b9d806000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f0b9d603000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0b9d3ff000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f0b9f6fa000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-amd64-k8-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.20.2 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.12-4 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.26 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090228-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.10-2 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9 Enables support for package tags
pn tasksel <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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