[plug] Question about APT-GET

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 5/7/07, Dion <tenzero at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having some fun with Feisty Fawn and apt-get.
>
> I wish to install eclipse, the eclipse-cdt and g++.
>
> However "apt-get install eclipse eclipse-cdt g++" proceeds to decide
> that I must also install a god awful multitude of other stuff.
>
> eg. ant ant-optional docbook-xml eclipse eclipse-cdt eclipse-jdt
> eclipse-pde eclipse-platform eclipse-rcp
>   eclipse-source exuberant-ctags fastjar firefox g++ g++-4.1 java-common
> java-gcj-compat junit
>   libbcel-java libc6-dev libcommons-beanutils-java
> libcommons-collections-java
>   libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-dbcp-java
> libcommons-digester-java libcommons-el-java
>   libcommons-launcher-java libcommons-logging-java
> libcommons-modeler-java libcommons-pool-java
>   libgcj7-jar libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libjsch-java
> liblog4j1.2-java liblucene-java
>   liblucene-java-doc libmx4j-java libnotify1 libnspr4 libnss3
> libregexp-java libscrollkeeper0
>   libservlet2.4-java libstdc++6-4.1-dev libswt3.2-gtk-java
> libswt3.2-gtk-jni libtomcat5.5-java
>   linux-libc-dev scrollkeeper sgml-data zenity
>
> How can I limit apt to only the true dependencies. The apt man page and
> google have not been very helpful.
>
> Cheers.
> D.
>
>
Try using aptitude - that will at least separate hard dependencies from
suggestions etc. But if you're seriously interested in tweaking these kinds
of dependencies, maybe you should Gentoo....

Tomasz
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