RE: dist-upgrade question
> From: youto_22554@yahoo.com,Friday, January 24, 2003 9:31 AM
>
> I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted to do
> a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results of the
> apt-get -u dist-upgrade.
> My questions is why is it trying to remove the
> task-x-window-system-core? If I did this wouldn't I
> have lost my "Desktop" and only had text only mode?
> +++++
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> atlas2 libctl1 task-gnome-desktop
> task-x-window-system-core
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> atlas2-base coreutils dash guile-common guile1.4
> libctl2 libgnet1.1-glib1 libguile-dev libltdl3-dev
> The following packages have been kept back
> balsa debian-policy tetex-bin
> The following packages will be upgraded
> ash console-data debconf debconf-utils dh-make
> docbook-xml fileutils
> gnomeicu initrd-tools latex2html libctl-dev lintian
> mpb sgml-data shellutils textutils xbase-clients
> xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-dev xserver-common xutils
> 22 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 4 to remove
> and 3 not upgraded.
> Need to get 17.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1910kB
> will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> ++++
> Thanks
> Don
As far as I can tell, it's only trying to remove the "tasksel" task of
task-x-window-system-core
You will see that it is upgrading some of the actualy packages (I see
xfree86-common and xserver-common) required by that "meta-package" or "task"
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