On Tuesday 12 July 2005 06:11 am, Steve Langasek wrote: > The most likely explanation for this is that aptitude is trying to satisfy > a Recommends: for some package already installed on the system, and > believes that installing exim4 is the only way to do this. You might also > try running aptitude --without-recommends dist-upgrade, to see if the > problem goes away.
I haven't researched all the dependencies, but aptitude never follows a Recommends for a package that's not newly installed. I also doubt sticky installation states are affecting things, as dist-upgrade doesn't (shouldn't) read them. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect." | | -- "The Princess Bride" | \------ (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) -------/
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