On 2009-07-22 18:06 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > mawk is alway installed (required and a dependency of an essential package).
Wrong, you can easily remove mawk if you like, as long as you have another package that provides awk: ,---- | % LANG=C aptitude -s remove mawk | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | Reading task descriptions... Done | The following packages will be REMOVED: | mawk | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 22 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 233kB will be freed. | Would download/install/remove packages. `---- But you cannot remove _all_ packages providing awk: ,---- | % LANG=C aptitude -s remove mawk gawk original-awk | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Reading extended state information | Initializing package states... Done | Reading task descriptions... Done | The following packages are BROKEN: | base-files dictfmt tla | The following packages will be REMOVED: | gawk mawk original-awk | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 22 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 2466kB will be freed. | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | base-files: PreDepends: awk which is a virtual package. | tla: Depends: gawk but it is not installable | dictfmt: Depends: gawk but it is not installable | The following actions will resolve these dependencies: | | Keep the following packages at their current version: | gawk [1:3.1.6.dfsg-3 (unstable, now)] | | Score is -9939 | | Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q | Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. | Abort. `---- Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
