Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of
> kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on
> dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package.
I really hope not. That would be a misinterpretation of Replaces, which
on its own simply means that some files from the named package(s) have
moved to the package containing the Replaces field.
Replaces in combination with Conflicts or maybe Provides, possibly ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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