On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > As for the discussion, APT actually has such a feature cleverly > > undocumented and unmentioned - if you flag a package as Impotant: then > > its downtime is minizimized by the ordering code.
> packages that conflict with them. An example is moving from the 1.1.2 > KDE packages to the 2.0 ones, eg. from kdebase to kdebase-cvs etc. USing > dselect and APT, what happens is that somehow installation of the new > packages is tried first, and fails, and then deinstallation does not > proceed. Soone needs to explicitely delete the old packages first and > install the new ones after. That should be figured out by the package > management tools. It is figured out by the tools, but it sounds like the KDE packages lack the proper headers to tell what to do. Jason
