Comment 6 for bug 56742

  Note that this isn't the same thing as the bugreport you replied to;
David was adjusting the value of the "install recommends automatically"
and "install suggestions automatically" variables manually, which
currently screws up the dependency tracking.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:08:33PM -0500, Steve Greenland <email address hidden> was heard to say:
> I think I have a related problem. I've got "automatically remove unused
> packages" set, and I've disabled auto selection of recommended and
> suggested packages. Using aptitude in TUI mode, doing 'update' and
> then "Go", it wants to remove a lot of packages and install a lot of
> packages (like 20 or 30). If I manually re-select all the ones it wants
> to remove, and de-select all the ones it wants to add, and run the
> upgrade, it goes okay. The first time it happened I thought I had,
> perhaps, fumble-fingered my way into it, but it's happened 3 or 4 times
> now (in the last month or so), and I don't *think* it's me.

  Can you reproduce this in the command-line and turn dependency display
on? (maybe "aptitude -sD install", although I'm not quite sure this
will DTRT)

  Daniel

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