package: aptitude
version: 0.4.3-1
severity: minor
Hello!
It has caught my eye that the packages which are automatically installed
by aptitude depend on the order in which the package names are entered
at the command line.
I want to install both 'xorg' and 'gnome-desktop-environment' packages
in a freshly debootstrap'd chroot:
(1)
# aptitude install xorg gnome-desktop-environment
(...)
0 packages upgraded, 547 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
vs.
(2)
# aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment xorg
(...)
0 packages upgraded, 545 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
The two additional packages in (1) are 'xbitmaps' and 'xterm' (xbitmaps
is pulled in by xterm).
Please note that xterm is a dependency of xorg that can (and should) be
satisfied alternatively by any other package providing
x-terminal-emulator, in this case gnome-terminal.
I consider it a bug that aptitude does not realise that this dependency
is already satisfied in the (1) case above.
Thank you for your effort!
Cheers,
Fabian
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