Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> 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 ...

Well, the 'Replaces' theory sounds much more reasonable to me than the 
'Depends' theory.  No packages were being upgraded on OP's dist-upgrade 
so the depends of every other package on his system must remain 
constant.  In order for a depends to cause a new package to be 
installed, it follows that there was a package that somehow got 
installed with an unsatisfied 'Depends'.  I don't know how this could 
happen without the OP knowing what was going on[ie he had been using 
dpkg --force-depends].