On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 05:51:05AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude. > > Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and suggested that, > because of dependency problems, I remove exim4, exim4-base, > exim4-daemon-light, ftp, netbase, nfs-common, ntp, ntp-simple, ntp-date, > openbsd-inetd, pidentd, telnet and I install nbstmp. > There is a problem to running aptitude in my experience. Any time you try to uninstall packages installed by aptitude on the basis of a Recommends, aptitude may then attempt to uninstall _all_ packages based on Recommends. [May because it doesn't happen 100% of the time].
It may be that I'm just a dyed-in-the-wool dselect user but this apparent feature has been enough to put me off aptitude altogether. IMHO, YMMV, etc. etc. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
