"application" installation (was: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages)

2005-04-05 Thread David Schmitt
[since my comments are post-sarge, I dropped -release] On Wednesday 06 April 2005 04:33, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Anyway, that would be a solution local to the KDE metapackages (though > I believe other sets of metapackages are doing it like that), but it's > certainly suboptimal. > > I've w

Re: Fwd: apt-get dist-upgrade will remove metapackages

2005-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Daniel Burrows [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:09:49 -0400]: [Explanation of how aptitude's smart "This pacakge was automatically installed" mechanism breaks badly with metapackages, when removing one of the dependencies triggers the removal of the metapackage, and then all the other dependencies g