>>>>> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hall> Okay, I said I'd be asking some more... Here goes: I recently updated
Hall> everything to "woody", per Tom Gilbert's suggestion. It all went
Hall> pretty well. At least it's working now. Now, when I want to keep
Hall> updated, I run "apt-get update", then "apt-get dist-upgrade". My
Hall> complaint it, it wants to install a few, if not more, packages that
Hall> I've selectively removed. For example, diald -- that's the one that
Hall> comes to mind. I don't want diald, nor do I have it currently
Hall> installed.
My guess is that one of the task-* packages that you have installed depends on
diald. Probably task-dialup (or something like that - I cant look at my
packages list because I'm in the middle of doing in upgrade right now).
Hall> First, why does it want to add this package, among others, back in ??
Hall> Is it part of the "base" installation (sorry, I could check that -- I
Hall> think -- but I'm at work now). If so, I understand the logic.
No, I don't think that it's part of the base installation.
Hall> What I'm comparing it to <shields up> is an RPM-based distros method
Hall> of "upgrading". I think it looks at what's installed and updates
Hall> those packages (and dependencies) at the least. Right ?? I'd like
Hall> "apt-get dist-upgrade" to do that.
Once you get used to apt and Woody, you'll never mention that nasty
three-letter-acronym again (unless it's preceded by "I hate...") ;-) Actually,
there is one thing I miss about RPM, and that was that it's very fast (compared
to dpkg). But that's the topic of a totally different discussion.
"apt-get upgrade" does the same thing. If you do "upgrade" instead of
"dist-upgrade", you'll probably see something like "xxx packages not
upgraded". The biggest reason that packages don't get upgraded is that the new
version of the package depends on a package that is not installed. Doing a
"dist-upgrade" will install the new packages that are depended on. And that's
probably what you were seeing.
Hubert
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