Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: > >> Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and >> you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in. > > Sorry, you seem to be mistaken: texlive-fonts-extra depends on dpkg, not > th

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 21:58 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: >> >>> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do >>> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also >>> does not seem t

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do >> not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also >> does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package. >> W

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 16:24 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do > not see any reason to install texlive-fonts-extra, and aptitude also > does not seem to see one. But it still wants to install the package. > Why? Probably because texpower

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Dom writes: > What does > > aptitude why texlive-fonts-extra > > say? See original posting. -- 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/878vfo2xfg@falma.de

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 18:38 +0200, Tom H wrote: > Run "aptitude search '?reverse-depends(texlive-fonts-extra)'" and > you'll see that it's dpkg that's pulling it in. Sorry, you seem to be mistaken: texlive-fonts-extra depends on dpkg, not the other way around. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Dom
On 15/06/12 17:15, Christoph Groth wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed th

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/15/2012 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote: Wayne Topa writes: On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System w

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Javier Vasquez writes: > Some time back the policy changed to install by default the > "recommended" ones. So I had to include in my setting: > > APT::Install-Recommends "false"; > > I'm not sure if that would help you. Also I would turn off > "suggested" packages if you have them turned on (th

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and >

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote: > Wayne Topa writes: >> On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: > >>> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to >>> install some rather huge packages. > >> Install the debian-reference package and read se

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > >> "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed >> the reason why it is needed.  In my case, aptitude wants to install >> texlive-fonts-extra though this package

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-15 18:15 +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: > "aptitude -D" is supposed to show for each package to be newly installed > the reason why it is needed. In my case, aptitude wants to install > texlive-fonts-extra though this package is currently not installed and > also (to my knowledge) not r

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Wayne Topa writes: > On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: >> For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to >> install some rather huge packages. > Install the debian-reference package and read section 2.3.5. System wide > upgrade Thanks. I read section 2.3.5

Re: aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/15/2012 10:24 AM, Christoph Groth wrote: Hello, I'm using "aptitude full-upgrade" to keep my debian testing installations up-to-date. For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-

aptitude full-upgrade installs unnecessary packages

2012-06-15 Thread Christoph Groth
Hello, I'm using "aptitude full-upgrade" to keep my debian testing installations up-to-date. For a reason that I do not understand, currently full-upgrade wants to install some rather huge packages. Please consider the output of "aptitude -D full-upgrade" below. I do not see any reason to insta