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.