Re: dselect, apt-get and unstable
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:24:56AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:59:36 +0100 (MET)
> David Fokkema <fokkema@nat.vu.nl> wrote:
>
> > 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.
Boo... It is about 1700 packges, i.e., almost all packages depend on
libc6. I just checked it :-)
I guess you guys has to read (I just updated few days ago)
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-preface.en.html#s1.5
I need to add more things on "aptitude" in chapter 6.
What tools you use for Debian archive access and what dependancy problem
you encounter areorthogonal problem. It is just an impression you get
when you use these tools in the default state.
Osamu
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