Incoming from Daniel Burrows: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +0000, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > NB: passing -R in old aptitudes will remove anything that was > previously installed because of a recommendation. It's probably
Thanks for the clarification. I suppose I should report a bug on the manpage: -R Do not treat recommendations as dependencies when installing new packages It says nothing about removing stuff that's already here. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]