Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-23 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 22 March 2011 13:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/03/11 23:56, Jonathan Matthews wrote: >> It looks to me (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cwebx) that perhaps >> the only reason gcc is /on/ your machine is due to aptitude pulling it >> down when you installed cwebx. Hence it knows that, as

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 07:28 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gc

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:56:58PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Just tell aptitude you explicitly /want/ gcc and you should be good to > remove cwebx. I'd be interested to see if "aptitude install gcc ; > aptitude remove cwebx" achieves this directly - do let the list know In aptitude's grap

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 13:28:49 Charles Blair wrote: >I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc.

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 23:56, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On 22 March 2011 12:28, Charles Blair wrote: >> I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a >> system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign >> next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then >> remove a who

Re: aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On 22 March 2011 12:28, Charles Blair wrote: >   I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a > system for documenting C programs.  When I put a minus sign > next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then > remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc.  I definit

aptitude over-zealous on removals?

2011-03-22 Thread Charles Blair
I decided I wanted to remove the package cwebx, which is a system for documenting C programs. When I put a minus sign next to that package, I was told that aptitude wanted to then remove a whole bunch of other stuff, including gcc. I definitely did NOT want that to happen and exited from aptit