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Re: new perl dependencies



ke6sls@arrl.net wrote:
>I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now
>and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was
>KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth.
>Finally, I used the "Q" to force it and it worked. Don't know much about
>dselect, so I hope I didn't break anything in the process. Good luck!

Q is there for when the dependencies are genuinely wrong and you want to
install the package anyway, but are willing to accept any breakage that
may occur. When two packages are just a bit out of sync (as is the case
here), putting them on hold is usually neater.

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]


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