Hi, Laurent Bonnaud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: i first installed Debian 1.1 (how was it called btw ?) Buzz (Lightyear) was the name of Debian 1.1. Cool name. : - dselect reports the package base 1.1.0-13 as obsolete but will not : purge it (neither will dpkg --purge) because it is an essential : package. It does not stop me from working but it would be cleaner : if i could remove it. Removing its entry from the status file would : it be safe ? I have had the same problem since 1.1. I'm in 1.2 and haven't upgraded to 1.3 yet because our production servers are mission critical so I am waiting for something like 1.3.x where x > 1. Any way, I heard in the list that upgrading to 1.3 won't get rid of this undesirable package or solve the problem. I wish one of the developers give an explanation of why this happened and if we will have to live forever with this "obsolete" package (unless we re-install from scratch that in my case is not an option and would make my selection of Debian, because of its upgradability, senseless.) I've seen several messages in the list regarding this problem but never have seen a satisfactory answer. I think I recall someone said not to remove this package as the consequences would be fatal. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
