Re: apt-get etc

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:20:59AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
>     The following packages have been kept back
>     communicator navigator netscape
>     0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not
> upgraded
> 
> My Netscape instalation went from 4.76 to 4.77 at the recent change, so
> what does the "3 not upgraded refer to?

I'm not sure _why_ they don't upgrade themselves, but communicator,
navigator, and netscape are all dummy packages that simply depend on
the real Netscape packages.  They primarily exist to ease installation
(`apt-get install navigator` is a lot more obvious than `apt-get install
navigator-smotif-477 netscape-java-477 netscape-base-4`, particularly
when you don't know the current version) and can probably be removed
now that the actual software is in place.

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