Stan Hoeppner (s...@hardwarefreak.com on 2011-04-22 13:12 -0500): > ~$ aptitude why dbus > i libdbus-1-3 Recommends dbus > > ~$ aptitude why libdbus-1-3 > i dbus Depends libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) > > It appears my only dependency is circular. Not necessarily. Sadly, aptitude why only discovers one reason, not *all* reasons. More specifically, it stops its search at the first non-automatically installed package.
> Aptitude says both are > optional and not installed automatically. But, considering dbus was > not part of my Lenny system, nor Etch before it, it sure seems that > it was automatically installed by the Squeeze upgrade. Sadly, a dist-upgrade does not do a good job of keeping "automatically installed" packages automatic. Try the following: # aptitude markauto libdbus-1-3 $ aptitude why dbus > So, my question stands. Does (headless) Squeeze need the dbus-daemon > for something that Lenny did not, or can I safely remove it? $ aptitude -s purge dbus should give you that answer. On my two headless boxes, dbus is not installed, so it is not *always* required. But like other have said, it really depends on the services you're running on that box. Regards, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110423104308.77cb4...@neminis.loos.site
