John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling writes: > > Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to > > understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't > > try to blow away lprng: > > There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages > installed (I don't use a "desktop environment") but apt is not trying to > install them.
I suspect it may have something to do with some of the stuff "aptitude -R install foomatic-filters-ppds" did. I'd never tried using that switch before: ------------------------------------------- The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: bsh cpp cpp-4.1 dbus discover1 discover1-data gcj-4.1-base gij gij-4.1 hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-data libdiscover1 libft-perl libgcj-bc libgcj-common libgcj7-0 libgcj7-awt libgcj7-jar libglade2-0 libglib2.0-data libgtk2.0-bin libjaxp1.3-java libjline-java libjpeg-progs libpaper-utils libttf2 libxalan2-java libxerces2-java libxprintapputil1 libxprintutil1 libxt-java libxxf86misc1 mdetect myspell-en-us openoffice.org-java-common psfontmgr sgml-base x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-base xfonts-utils xli xml-core xprint-utils xresprobe xscreensaver xutils xutils-dev The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: hpijs hpijs-ppds libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libsysfs2 The following NEW packages will be installed: foomatic-filters-ppds hpijs hpijs-ppds libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libsysfs2 The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: cupsys ------------------------------------------- -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
