Re: aptitude keeps trying to replace my vim-gtk and ftpd

From: Jules Dubois (3f88o9g02_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 11/03/04

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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:42:04 -0700

    On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 10:54:56 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:

    > I just ran aptitude and it got "The following packages are unused and
    > will be REMOVED". There are 8 packages it wants to remove, one of which
    > is bluefish, which I am using as I run aptitude.(?)

    Bluefish is an HTML editor based on GTK, not an aptitude helper. Or did
    you mean you were running the two applications at the same time?

    > A lot of people swear by aptitude but this behavior has made me swear
    > _at_ it more and more.

    If you want to keep bluefish, tell aptitude you installed it "manually".

    > There _might_ be some good reason for the way aptitude doese things but
    > I can't find them.

    Bluefish is marked as "automatically installed", and since (apparently)
    nothing you've installed "manually" depends on it, aptitude is removing it
    for you.

    > I would appreciate any explaination for this bizarre behaviour.

    What you're describing is a feature of aptitude. You can stop it, easily,
    from removing bluefish if you really wanted to keep bluefish. There may
    be a way to stop aptitude from removing "unused" packages, but since I
    want it to do that, I haven't checked.

    There's nothing bizarre involved. 

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