On 9/15/05, Byron Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Therefore if you install g-d-e and it pulls in everything for your GNOME > desktop environment, then ALL the packages that it does pull in will be > marked as Automatic. Therefore, if through a dependency problem, i.e. > sound-juicer, the g-d-e cannot be properly upgraded, then if you > remove g-d-e, all the GNOME desktop will be removed because > aptitude thinks that they were only installed to satisfy the dependency. > Thus you get a mess.
I'm not sure if that's unique to Aptitude. I use Synaptic most of the time, and sometimes apt-get directly when Synaptic won't let me force more than one package at a time to come from unstable. But I still can't upgrade to GNOME 2.10 (all of it; I have some parts of it from 2.10) because of sound-juicer. *sigh*
