Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007

> When I checked Aptitude's internal database using
>
>   aptitude install -fsD
>
> I get
>
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>
> mencoder (C: mencoder-k6) mplayer (C: mplayer-k6)
> sysvinit (P: file-rc, P: sysv-rc, P: sysvinit-utils)
> The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
>   file-rc
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   ... mencoder-k6 mplayer-doc mplayer-k6 ...
>
> But mplayer-k6 is only a dummy package, and
> it conflicts with mplayer [2].
>
> Why aptitude still wants to install such packages?
> Why aptitude wants to remove my essential file-rc package?

aptitude was trying hard to figure out/fix the dependencies of broken packages. the message is illusive. What's is really count is the actual action that aptitude suggests at the end.

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