Re: Does everything depend on everything?
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:28:28 -0400
Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> wrote:
> Today dpkg and dpkg-dev showed up as being held back. When I ran
>
> aptitude -s install dpkg dpkg-dev
>
> the result was that kdebase, kicker, kpersonalizer, ksplash, and
> libkonq5 became BROKEN.
>
> Something is wrong somewhere if updating required core packages breaks
> optional packages.
Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to
wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional
packages, compatible with the new core packages, become available.
I assume that you're running testing or unstable? This sort of thing
is not uncommon with those flavors, IIUC.
Celejar
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