On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote: > I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted to do > a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results of the > apt-get -u dist-upgrade. > My questions is why is it trying to remove the > task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I > have lost my "Desktop" and only had text only mode?
Tasks contain dependancies, not content. > The following packages will be REMOVED: > atlas2 libctl1 task-gnome-desktop > task-x-window-system-core > The following NEW packages will be installed: > atlas2-base coreutils dash guile-common guile1.4 > libctl2 libgnet1.1-glib1 libguile-dev libltdl3-dev atlas2-base replaces atlas2 libctl2 replaces libctl1 The tasks are just packages containing dependancies. If you had said 'y' to the upgrade, the two task-* packages would be removed, but not X. > The following packages have been kept back > balsa debian-policy tetex-bin You might want to take a look at their new dependancies to see why they were kept back. > The following packages will be upgraded > ash console-data debconf debconf-utils dh-make > docbook-xml fileutils > gnomeicu initrd-tools latex2html libctl-dev lintian > mpb sgml-data shellutils textutils xbase-clients > xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-dev xserver-common xutils > 22 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 4 to remove > and 3 not upgraded. As you can see here, X would be upgraded, not removed. > Need to get 17.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1910kB > will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n 'y' -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
