On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:56:31 +0100
Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2011-11-14 16:03 +0100, Richard wrote:
> 
> > Playing dangerously with Sid, and I've reached the limit of what it will 
> > upgrade to
> > without some help.
> > Nearly everything has a dependency on perl, the perl version has change, so 
> > how do just upgrade the
> > perl base.
> 
> Just don't do it. 
> 
> > I can't see the equivalent of rpm --nodeps in apt-get, and clean up the 
> > mess afterwards.
> 
> Don't create a mess in the first place, and wait for perl's reverse
> dependencies to be rebuilt.  This will be sorted out in the next few
> days.
> 
> Sven
> 
> 

Thanks Sven, I'll wait a couple of days as you suggest, Would I better 
subscribing to the -dev list as
well, then I might be able to contribute something useful.

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Best wishes / 73
Richard Bown

e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com   or   richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk

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