Comment 7 for bug 990982

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:28:21PM -0000, Igbaäl wrote:
> alex@leon:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev gcc libc6-dev:i386
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> gcc is already the newest version.
> libc6-dev is already the newest version.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> linux-libc-dev:i386
> Suggested packages:
> glibc-doc:i386 manpages-dev:i386
> Recommended packages:
> gcc:i386 c-compiler:i386
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libc6-dev:i386 linux-libc-dev:i386
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 5,891 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 23.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C

> You seem to understand what's going wrong, and that's great !

Well, I at least know how to work around it. What's going wrong is that the
recommend is being processed, apt tries to satisfy the recommend by removing
other packages, can't actually make it work, so doesn't install the
recommends - but has already marked some conflicting packages for removal.

But this problem is not reproducible at all for me; I would expect it to be
more consistent.