Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages
On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:11:31 +0100
Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> On 04 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote:
> >
> > "Note that in DebianWheezy and beyond tasksel provides and uses
> > dummy packages (known as meta packages) to pull required
> > dependencies."
> >
> > but as there are 80 packages (seems heck a lot), be careful to
> > verify first. So leave them alone till you're sure.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> I don't think that was the case. But oddly, the removal message has
> suddenly disappeared, after I had looked at a couple of
> packages using "wajig show foo". It looks as if something had got
> slightly out of kilter on my system, though I don't know what it was.
I think your system is alright. This morning after an apt-get update
and upgrade everything was fine, this evening it's back to 102
removals..
Sid is just being Sid again.. ;)
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