This behavior usually indicates that these acckages were not neede <quote who="Luke Davis"> > I have two odd things going on with apt. I am no expert. Does this > look normal? > > mail1:~# apt-get remove exim > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > apache at exim logrotate mailagent mailx mutt > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7702kB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > On another system, I'm getting this: > > root at atlas:/etc/apt# apt-get remove exim > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > amanda-common apache at exim logrotate mailx mutt phpmyadmin samba > swat > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 15.3MB will be > freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > Now, I have no desire to remove any of these other packages, and in fact > can't! All I want to do, is lose exim. > > Any thoughts? > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Matt B. White Tel: 508.969.2836
