On Monday, June 19, 2017 11:30:31 PM CEST you wrote: > inkbottle ha scritto: > > task-kde-desktop depends on kde-standard > > which depends on plasma-desktop > > which depends on kde-baseapps > > which depends on konqueror > > which depends on tons of difficult to understand seemingly outdated > > dependencies. > > > > The upgrade is very difficult > > > > In fact I give up the upgrade altogether. > > I'll have to come to it through another angle: > > There are tons of packages which I deem old and unnecessary, and I find no > > simple way not to install them. > > > > And there is no simple way not to install konqueror. > > So to summarize: the upgrade itself is not complicated; it is complicated > only because you don't want konqueror. > > Can you please try at least to complete it, and list which "tons of > packages" are old and unnecessary? Konqueror in Stretch is not so different > from Konqueror in Jessie from the point of view of dependencies, so you > should have those dependencies already.
Well, first thing I had *all* the automatically installed packages marked as manually installed by aptitude, so I had to press "M" on more than 100 entries (perhaps a lot more): it is unrelated but it was not a good start. For the rest you are probably right. However the dependencies are quite maximal, everything is "depend", where in many places a "recommended" would have been enough, IMO. So there is no flexibility: either you install everything, or you have to select everything manually. Also it is not my computer: I, myself, follow sid... Hence I've seen all the changes that have been done those last months... And though it is not rocket science (to the point i can be just plain mistaken); but when I've done the upgrade, many times version numbers where "looking wrong". I am, at the moment, trying to complete the upgrade, and that without going into all the details. I'll keep you informed.
