Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
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
Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
On Vi, 22 apr 11, 18:28:23, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:34:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and dbus-daemon was installed automatically. You should have instructed apt to do not install recommended packages by default. Depending on the box I have two approaches on dealing with Recommends: 1. low disk space Turn Recommends off, but beware of missing functionality 2. sufficient disk space Leave Recommends on, but inspect the list of packages to be installed, especially when the number of additional packages is more then say 5-10 to 1. Aptitude interactive mode is great for this ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it? -- Stan -- 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/4db1bc22.5010...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
On 22/04/11 19:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it? aptitude why dbus tells me avahi-daemon depends on dbus. And I use avahi to publish afp (netatalk) and ssh services... -- 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/4db1bd78.5040...@rail.eu.org
Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
Erwan David put forth on 4/22/2011 12:40 PM: On 22/04/11 19:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and dbus-daemon was installed automatically. Dbus is strictly for desktops isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it? aptitude why dbus tells me avahi-daemon depends on dbus. And I use avahi to publish afp (netatalk) and ssh services... That doesn't really answer my question. ~$ 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. 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. So, my question stands. Does (headless) Squeeze need the dbus-daemon for something that Lenny did not, or can I safely remove it? -- Stan -- 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/4db1c4f5.6070...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:34:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and dbus-daemon was installed automatically. You should have instructed apt to do not install recommended packages by default. Dbus is strictly for desktops isn't it? Is this necessary on a headless server? Can I safely remove it? You can remove it whenever not required by any other package/application. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.04.22.18.28...@gmail.com
