APT Is Nagging Me To Remove Things I Don't Want To Remove

[Dave Vincenty]

Donn wrote:
> You could also try:
> sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
> and see what it does.
>
> ...
> Try the kubuntu-desktop trick mentioned by Luke first.
Okay, I installed kubuntu-desktop again, which made me remember that I 
probably decided to get rid of it some time ago when I removed some 
packages it depended on, like KDM (because I downloaded some really 
nifty GDM login screens before I switched back to KDE) and KMail 
(because I've been doing all my mail-related stuff with Mozilla 
Thunderbird for years), and I only remember this because those packages 
are back on my system now, but the important thing is apt-get isn't 
telling me to remove things anymore.

Then, I went with Donn's suggestion.  Here's what aptitude wanted to do:
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
[Same list as before]
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 246 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 511MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

I don't really think I want to continue if it's going to get rid of so 
much stuff.

I guess I could just ignore it, but why does it want to remove all those 
packages?

Is there a way to change what APT thinks ought to be removed?


~~ dave ~~