Greetings wise admins, apt-get upgrade went fine, however dist-upgrade looks ready to remove a lot of Xorg packages while holding back upgrades.
What is the appropriate solution here, just to wait? Obviously I don't want to lose X and other important libraries. Details follow. Thanks for any help. Joel .-.-.-.-. $ apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: (...) The following packages will be REMOVED: libboost-date-time1.49-dev libboost-filesystem1.49-dev libboost-graph1.49-dev libboost-iostreams1.49-dev libboost-program-options1.49-dev libboost-python1.49-dev libboost-regex1.49-dev libboost-serialization1.49-dev libboost-signals1.49-dev libboost-system1.49-dev libboost-test1.49-dev libboost-thread1.49-dev libboost-wave1.49-dev libboost1.49-dev libgjs0b libreoffice-filter-mobiledev liferea nodejs-dev npm openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following NEW packages will be installed: debugedit dh-python fonts-font-awesome gcr gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x gvfs-backends icedtea-7-jre-jamvm icu-devtools libasa-perl libavfilter3 libavresample1 libbind9-90 libboost-atomic1.54-dev libboost-atomic1.54.0 libboost-chrono1.54-dev libboost-chrono1.54.0 libboost-date-time1.54-dev libboost-date-time1.54.0 libboost-filesystem1.54-dev libboost-filesystem1.54.0 libboost-graph1.54-dev libboost-graph1.54.0 libboost-iostreams1.54-dev libboost-iostreams1.54.0 libboost-program-options1.54-dev libboost-program-options1.54.0 libboost-python1.54-dev libboost-python1.54.0 libboost-regex1.54-dev libboost-regex1.54.0 libboost-serialization1.54-dev libboost-serialization1.54.0 libboost-signals1.54-dev libboost-signals1.54.0 libboost-system1.54-dev libboost-system1.54.0 libboost-test1.54-dev libboost-test1.54.0 libboost-thread1.54-dev libboost-thread1.54.0 libboost-wave1.54-dev libboost-wave1.54.0 libboost1.54-dev libclucene-contribs1 libclucene-core1 libcogl-pango12 libcogl12 libcpan-meta-check-perl libcpan-meta-perl libdbusmenu-glib4 libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl libdist-checkconflicts-perl libdns99 libdvbpsi8 libfcgi-procmanager-perl libgail-3-0 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-common libgcr-base-3-1 libgcr-ui-3-1 libgee2 libgnutls28 libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common libhogweed2 libhttp-tiny-perl libhwloc-plugins libhwloc5 libindicate5 libio-handle-util-perl libisc95 libisccc90 libisccfg90 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libkdb5-7 liblexical-sealrequirehints-perl liblexical-var-perl liblog-message-simple-perl liblwres90 libmodule-cpanfile-perl libmodule-metadata-perl libmoo-perl libmoox-types-mooselike-perl libmozjs24d libmwaw-0.1-1 libodfgen-0.0-0 liborcus-0.6-0 libparse-cpan-meta-perl libpython3-stdlib libpython3.3-minimal libpython3.3-stdlib libqpdf13 librest-0.7-0 librole-tiny-perl libstrictures-perl libtasn1-6 libudev1 libudev1:i386 libusb-1.0-0:i386 libusbmuxd2 libv8-3.14.5 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-common libwebp4 libxatracker1 libzita-alsa-pcmi0 myrepos node-ansi node-archy node-async node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar node-delayed-stream node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile node-mime node-mute-stream node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-retry node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tunnel-agent openjdk-7-jre-headless openjdk-7-jre-lib p11-kit pandoc-data python3.3 python3.3-minimal rdesktop steadyflow x11proto-resource-dev x11proto-scrnsaver-dev xulrunner-24.0 The following packages have been kept back: fftw-dev fftw2 libboost-doc xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware The following packages will be upgraded: aeolus aptitude aptitude-common bind9-host bluez consolekit cpanminus cups-filters default-jre-headless devscripts dmsetup dnsutils gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gvfs gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs iceweasel krb5-multidev libatasmart4 libav-tools libboost-date-time-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-serialization-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-wave-dev libck-connector0 libconfig-gitlike-perl libdevmapper1.02.1 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-drivers libeval-closure-perl libgbm1 libghc-citeproc-hs-data libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libgphoto2-port0 libgphoto2-port0:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libgudev-1.0-0 libhttp-server-simple-psgi-perl libicu-dev libicu48 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libk5crypto3 libkadm5clnt-mit8 libkadm5srv-mit8 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev libkrb5support0 liblog-dispatch-perl liblvm2app2.2 libpam-ck-connector libplack-perl libregexp-grammars-perl libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-officebean libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-style-crystal libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer librpm3 libsdl-image1.2 libterm-ui-perl libusb-1.0-0 libv8-dev libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 liferea-data mesa-common-dev mr node-minimatch node-request nodejs pandoc python-uno python3 python3-apt python3-minimal qemu-system-arm qemu-system-mips qemu-system-misc qemu-system-ppc qemu-system-sparc qemu-system-x86 qpdf rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio texlive-fonts-extra udev udisks uno-libs3 ure usbmuxd vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse wget x2goclient xserver-xorg-dev xul-ext-sage 126 upgraded, 152 newly installed, 32 to remove and 27 not upgraded. Need to get 415 MB/428 MB of archives. After this operation, 294 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. .-.-.-.-. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131006043150.GA13729@sprite