[gutsy] Aptitude doesn't handle recommends properly & doesn't remove unneeded dependencies automatically
Bug #128681 reported by
Craig Sampson
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Baltix) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
apt (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
aptitude (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: aptitude
Aptitude 0.4.5.4
Upgrade from feisty minimal install to gutsy minimal install. Opened aptitude, turn off 'automatically install recommended packages', try to install ubuntu-desktop. The trouble starts here, aptitude is trying to install all the dependency packages as simple 'installs' rather than dependency installs (with the 'A' flag) and is pulling in all the recommends for everything. Makes no difference if the 'automatically install recommended packages' flag is on or off.
Tried deleting .aptitude, no change.
Cheers,
Craig
Changed in aptitude: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in apt: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in apt: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
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This turned out not to be an aptitude fault after all. As I've suffered this condition since the first few days of the gutsy development I started to wonder if 'something' had been left behind causing this strange behaviour. After some snooping the following was found:
/etc/apt/ apt.conf. d/01ubuntu
Inside the 01ubuntu file were some directives which caused all meta packages to have their recommends dependencies installed by default no matter what apt-get or aptitude were instructed to do.
Removing 01ubuntu cleared up the problem.
Cheers,
Craig