On Sunday 07 August 2005 17:41, Bill Moseley wrote: > Did a long-over-due dist-upgrade on a laptop today, and even after > using Debian for years I'm still wondering how to best deal with > packages "kept back" and packages that apt-get wants to remove. I > kind of deal with them manually -- apt-get install them and fix what > gets removed. What worries me is when packages are removed. Use aptitude and put packages that have/cause temporary broken dependencies on hold to delay upgrade until dependencies are met again. I have no problems at all following unstable that way. The option in aptitude to mark packages as "automatically installed because of dependencies" (M/m key or 'aptitude (un)markauto') is also very useful to keep old libraries accumulating. Cheers, FJP
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