On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +0000, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the > wrong way round from a user perspective.
Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no way to know that gnome-desktop (eg) is a fake package whose dependencies should be kept on if it gets removed, so if you want to get automatic removal of unused packages, you end up with situations like this. If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under Options/Dependency Handling by disabling "Remove unused packages automatically", or add "Aptitude::Delete-Unused false;" to /etc/apt/apt.conf. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
