On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +0000, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 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:
NB: passing -R in old aptitudes will remove anything that was previously installed because of a recommendation. It's probably not a good idea unless you really want to do that. (in this case "old" means "prior to the unreleased packages sitting on my hard drive"...) Newer (unreleased) aptitudes just don't install new recommendations when they get -R; existing packages are left alone. (the old behavior should be available if you pass '-o Aptitude::Recommends-Important=false') Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
