Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

* Marko Randjelovic <marel@ni.sbb.co.yu> [061117 11:26]:
> When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed:
> 
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
>  bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool
>  gconf-editor gdm gedit gedit-common gnome-backgrounds gnome-cards-data
>  gnome-core gnome-games gnome-games-data gnome-keyring-manager
>  gnome-nettool gnome-system-tools gnome-themes gnome-utils gnomemeeting
>  gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtkhtml3.8 gucharmap guile-1.6-libs
>  industrial-cursor-theme libavahi-compat-howl0 libdmx1 libgnomevfs2-bin
>  libgtkhtml3.8-15 libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0
>  libguile-ltdl-1 libopenh323-1.18.0 libpt-1.10.0 libpt-plugins-alsa
>  libpt-plugins-v4l python-gnome2-desktop system-tools-backends vino zenity
>  zip
> 
> There is obviously something wrong because I use many of these packages. 
> It wants to remove whole gnome. If I use apt-get, 0 packages are to be 
> removed.
> 
> Is this some bug in aptitude?


There was a discussing regarding this matter on this list a week or so
ago; check the archives.

Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default.  Use synaptic
instead of aptitude.

RLH