On 06.09.2010 22:54, David Kalnischkies wrote: > A question which i have in mind since i read that the mentioned > packages are not compatible as they are in different namespaces: > Is this breaks just here to remove the package from the system? > If so, thats not the idea behind breaks… > If they are co-installable they should be co-installable, > end-of-support is not an other word for breaking away packages > as it breaks third-party archives as well as self-builds. > Let autoremove and co handle these instead… I tested a lenny→squeeze upgrade of a default GNOME desktop installation. aptitude is much more aggressive in removing unused packages, e.g. during the upgrade dead packages like dhcdbd are not removed by apt, whereas they are with aptitude. I ran apt-get autoremove after the dist-upgrade, but it did not remove any packages! Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596654 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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