On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install too > much cruft for me, namely apache2-mpm-prefork and *all* the > xserver-xorg-video-* packages, along with some others. Usually it just > wants to install one or two, keep a few and upgrade a bunch.
You haven't said whether you are running Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid, but I've heard that there has been a change in the package management system fairly recently that will cause it to treat recommendations as dependencies. Try the --no-install-recommends option when you run apt-get dist-upgrade. For example, apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade and see if that makes a difference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
