Holy Gnome3 Invasion, Batman! - Testing Upgrades 06/30/2013
Hi!
Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my
socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude.
I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way.
About a year ago I switched out Wicd for network-manager-gnome so that I could
make use of the latter package's ability to control VPN connections. I guess
that's the root cause of this little adventure. (However, IIRC, Xfce has started
using network-manager-gnome instead of Wicd anyway.)
This morning the usual upgrades included a gnome-bluetooth updgrade that wanted
to pull in what appeared to be just about everything from the Gnome DE --
roughly 117 packages. The gnome-bluetooth package was apparently on the system
because the network manager wants it there.
This was easy enough to prevent. I just held everything while I got rid of
gnome-bluetooth and its playmates, then put a forbid on gnome-bluetooth. The
ensuing upgrade attempt was a lot more reasonable.
I don't suppose this really qualifies as a bug -- particularly since
network-manager-gnome really is a part of the Gnome DE. But I imagine a few
folks who use it in other DEs are going to be a little consternated by today's
upgrades if they don't pay fairly close attention before committing to them.
Thanks for reading my tale of woe (whoa?).
J.
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