Problem with package removal...

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Hey, I have an issue where a package I am choosing to install is being 
removed, indirectly when removing a package I don't know.  The system 
didn't used to do this one, but maybe someone fixed the package 
dependencies or something.

So here's my conf file:

PACKAGES aptitude AMD64
memtest86+ udev openssh-server rsync cvs cvs2cl mkisofs sudo ntp ntpdate 
bzip2 vim linux32 ncurses-dev ant ibm-j2sdk1.4 ant-optional 
libxerces-java libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java python pyro 
linux-image-2.6.20-fai-client ibm-j2sdk1.4 lm-sensors libsensors3 rpm 
makedev make ia32-libs

PACKAGES aptitude DHCPC
dhcp3-client

PACKAGES aptitude GRUB
grub lilo-

PACKAGES aptitude LILO
lilo grub-

PACKAGES remove
gcj-4.1-base libgcj-common libgcj7-0 libgcj7-jar java-gcj-compat

Basically, there are several java packages I install for the class 
AMD64.  I dunno exactly what happens, but in the process of all this 
stuff, gcj-base gets pulled down (or it happens somewhere else).  I 
don't want this package, so I remove it, but this seems to take ant, 
ant-optional, and a couple other java related packages with it.

Is there a way I can tell fai to only remove the packages I explicitly 
tell it to?

-carl



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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cvanarsdall at mvista.com
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