Why does installing vncviewer want to remove all this other stuff?

[Bill Mills-Curran]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:43:21PM -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> From: Knute Johnson <knute2010 at knutejohnson.com>
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> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:43:21 -0800
> Subject: Why does installing vncviewer want to remove all this other stuff?
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> xubuntu 9.10 amd64
> 
> > knute at knute-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install xvnc4viewer
> > [sudo] password for knute: 
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree       
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Writing extended state information... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >   xvnc4viewer 
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   libcolamd2.7.1{u} lp-solve{u} openoffice.org-calc{u} 
> >   openoffice.org-draw{u} openoffice.org-filter-binfilter{u} 
> >   openoffice.org-impress{u} tzdata-java{u} 
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 145kB of archives. After unpacking 63.5MB will be freed.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] ^C
> > knute at knute-desktop:~$ 
> 
> Anybody know why it wants to remove all this other stuff?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> 
> Knute Johnson
> knute2010 at knutejohnson.com
> 

Just a guess...  Maybe those removals are not connected in any way to
vncviewer, but rather are just a cleanup by apt.  To test that
possibility, try installing some different package and see if aptitude
wants to remove those same packages.

Bill