On Vi, 10 feb 12, 14:19:42, Brad Alexander wrote: > Something I have noticed over the past year or more. Why does Debian's > conflict resolution system automatically react by wanting to install a > ton of packages? There are several frontends to APT (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc.), which one do you use? > It seems like before, it would refuse to install the > offending package, but now it wants to install tens or sometimes > hundreds of packages (e.g. all of Gnome or all of KDE). It usually > takes 3 or 4 s there a way to manage upgrades so it does not > immediately resort to uninstalling major portions of the system? Please copy-paste full commands and outputs, otherwise we can only guess. Also output of 'apt-cache policy' would be very useful. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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