Re: dist-upgrade question

[Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote:
>   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? 

Tasks contain dependancies, not content.

> 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 

atlas2-base replaces atlas2
libctl2 replaces libctl1
The tasks are just packages containing dependancies.  If you had said
'y' to the upgrade, the two task-* packages would be removed, but not X.

> The following packages have been kept back
>   balsa debian-policy tetex-bin 

You might want to take a look at their new dependancies to see why they
were kept back.

> 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.

As you can see here, X would be upgraded, not removed.

> Need to get 17.1MB of archives. After unpacking 1910kB
> will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

'y'

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