Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Can someone please tell me why dist-upgrade wants to remove kde
kdeaddons kvim vimpart,
which I have installed and want to keep, while upgrade retains kde
and upgrades several of its
components. Once before dist-upgrade removed about half of all
installed packages, which took
some time and effort to reinstall, and I'm not even sure that
everything has been put back the way
it was. Since then, I always use the -s option before doing any
upgrading.
Any enlightenment on my part is appreciated. Please copy my email
address as I not subscribed.
Thanks for your help,
Leonard Chatagnier
There seems to be a problem/falling-out between the vim folks and the
kvim folks.
kvim is being dropped by the vim folks but KDE 3.2 needs one of
several possible
vim packages (ideally kvim) installed.
$ cat /usr/share/doc/vim/NEWS.Debian.gz
vim (1:6.3-068+4) unstable; urgency=medium
* The kvim patch is unmaintained and has some annoying bugs, so we
decided to remove the kvim packages from Debian.
-- Norbert Tretkowski <...> Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:39:52 +0200
The trick appears to be to install vim-gnome which also satisfies
KDE's need for a vim
which lets the vim upgrades proceed without trying to remove kde, etc.
Alternatively, pin vim at your current level so it does not try to
upgrade to the newer version that drops kvim.
R.Parr, RHCE
Temporal Arts