Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable
Hi,
> > with that except from the fact that I'd like to play AVI-files. So that is
> > in unstable. Big deal. And it depends on the new libc6. Ok, no problem.
> > But even if I don't select anything dselect, it wants to upgrade 244
> > packages, install 26 and remove 34 and leave 3 not upgraded. I don't like
> > that. If I want to upgrade to unstable, I'll let dselect (or apt-get)
>
> But it is a problem. libc6 is a key library in a linux system; several hundred packages depend on it. The reason dselect wants to upgrade all those packages is that they depend on libc6.
>
> Kevin
Eh... why is this a problem? A dependency for package foo would list
Depends: libc6 (>>someversion)
right? If I install a new version of libc, why grab the new koffice? This
new libc6 is good for the old koffice...
David
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