Re: kde in "testing" ?
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:52:25PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 16:32, stan wrote:
> > > > I have several "testing" machines, when I try to do apt-get
> > > > dist-upgrade on them, they want to remove kde-base.
> > > >
> > > > This seems like a bad idea :-)
> > >
> > > Not really as long as kdebase is the only package to be removed.
> > > It's just a metapackage for easier installation of a whole lot of
> > > KDE components without any own functionality.
> >
> > Well, actually I just picked kdebase as the obvious one. Here's the
> > full story:
> >
> > Calculating Upgrade... Done
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > ark kab karm kate kcalc kcharselect kchart kcoloredit kcron kdebase
> > kdebase-libs kdepasswd kdf kdict kdm kedit kfind kformula kfract
> > kghostview khexedit kiconedit kit kivio kjots kmail knewsticker knode
> > knotes koffice koffice-libs konqueror konsole kontour korn koshell
> > kpackage kpaint kpm kpresenter kruler kscreensaver ksirc ksnapshot
> > kspread ksysv ktimer kugar kuser kview kword libarts libkdenetwork1
> > libkmid libkonq3 libvorbis0 secpolicy xmmsarts
> >
> > That looks pretty bad to me.
> >
> > Am I mistaken?
>
> It depends, do you have KDE 2.x installed, or some other backport ? If
> so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any
> existing KDE install. I don't know why it wants to remove as opposed to
> upgrade, not enough info.
Pure box stock Debain, no odd backports, or anything.
What addtioanl info can I provide?
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