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Re: what wants to remove gcc?



On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:20:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/10/07 10:43, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:51:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/10/07 08:23, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>Currently 'apt-get upgrade' wants to upgrade 289 packages. Rather
> >>>than do them all at once, I like to do smaller groups packages.
> >>It will save you time by running "# apt-get -d -y upgrade" while you
> >>go eat breakfast.  Once all the packages are downloaded, run "#apt-get
> >>upgrade" interactively.
> >
> >The -d option is a good idea but my main question still has not been
> >answered. What wants to *remove* gcc and why?
> 
> If this were happening to me, and I *really* cared, I'd use a binary 
> search algorithm to narrow it down.

Huh? Every individual package I've tried to upgrade wants to remove gcc
yet the whole collection does not.

> >Also, what does it mean to run "apt-get upgrade" *interactively*?
> 
> Huh?  How *else* do you run "apt-get upgrade"?

If there is no other way or if you mean in the normal way then the
modifier "interactively" is redundant and only causes confusion.

> <SUSPICIOUSLY>
> You don't run "apt-get upgrade" blindly thru cron, do you?
> </SUSPICIOUSLY>

When I run 'rm -i' it prompts before each removal. *That's* what
"interactively" means to me.

-- 
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 citizen to defend it." --- Albert Einstein*
    Rick Pasotto    rick@niof.net    http://www.niof.net


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