On 2020-04-22 08:33:23 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > You did not understand. Doing this removes both the transitional > > package *and* the new (renamed) package... unless one marks the new > > package as manually installed (which is the thing that I wanted to > > be done automatically). > > If there is a package depending on another one. the dependency will not be > removed, so if a replacement is to be installed that depends on the package > in question this package will not be removed.
Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post? > > No. The package could be so important that if it were uninstalled > > first, one could lose the network connection, which would be terribly > > bad when one cannot have a physical access to the machine before > > several days or weeks. Even if things still seem to be fine after the > > uninstall, things could break in the future, and it could be difficult > > to trace back to the original cause. > > This is true, but it I do not remember when the last time I had something > like this. You should be reading what it says before pressing "y" on the > command line. Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
