On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 02:06, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> writes:
>
> > Why? All you have to do is wait until they're in sync before you update
> > either one. You do *manage* your box, right? Not just have apt-get run
> > via cron every night?
>
> Of course, but the recent change, if one was using galeon-nautilus,
> didn't make it possible for anyone to easily check or even know that
> something was broken until too late.
If you use the -u option to apt-get, you will have the opportunity to
see what packages will be removed. Then you can abort a dist-upgrade
that will remove something you want and do an upgrade instead.
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