apt can't do upgrades?

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

OK, we've been having a situation here on alpha where apt wants to
remove about three dozen of my gtk-using packages because of
gconv-modules.  This when I uses dist-upgrade.  But -- if I do apt-get
install locales, then apt-get dist-upgrade, it works fine.  So why
can't apt do this itself?

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John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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