Package: tasksel Version: 2.66 Severity: normal hi
I upgraded a sarge system to etch; I wanted to be sure I was not missing some important desktop utilities and files; so I issued # tasksel install desktop that in turn ran # debconf-apt-progress -- aptitude -q --without-recommends -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$ that then called # aptitude -o APT::Status-Fd=4 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=5 -o APT::Keep-Fds::=6 -q --without-recommends -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$ that proceeded to delete 119 packages to my system, w/o asking. The problem is that, in aptitude, --without-recommends triggers the removal of automatically installed packages that are recommends and not depends: so it should be avoided. It would be better if 'tasksel' avoided passing -q -y to aptitude, and/or if it would ask before deleting 119 packages and/or if it did not use --without-recommends a. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.4.4-4 terminal-based apt frontend ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-1 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.66 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/first: tasksel/tasks: -- Andrea Mennucc "The EULA sounds like it was written by a team of lawyers who want to tell me what I can't do, and the GPL sounds like it was written by a human being who wants me to know what I can do." Anonymous, http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/420 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
