On Saturday 02 July 2016 09:39:31 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 02 July 2016 14:21:36 Gene Heskett wrote:
Same with aptitude, I can't remove it
That's unusual. Are you sure, Gene? I know that your system is not quite standard, but often in past Debian installs, not only has aptitude not been a dependency, it has not even been there and I have had to install it myself. In fact, there was a discussion quite recently on the Debian list as to whether aptitude should be installed by default.
Here is the first post in what turned out a fairly long thread.
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/375717CA-88D6-4CF6-8D60-2A133DF3552F@p...
Lisi
I followed all that as it went by Lisi, maybe even posted about it but forgotten now, old wet ram. If I try to remove aptitude, synaptic (or apt-get) says it will also remove around 30 some packages of trinity stuff including the base trinity install. Curious about how real the dependencies are, I've made aptitude-curses non executable, so now I sit back and wait for something to complain. If no complaints in a week , I'll rename it slightly and wait another week. After that, rm to the rescue.
Cheers, Gene Heskett