Re: Bug#40800: apt-get getting trigger-happy
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, James Aylett wrote:
> apt-get appears to be getting rather enthusiastic about fiddling with
> installed packages. I tried to run 'apt-get install liblocale-gettext-perl'
> (that package was listed as held back in a previous 'apt-get upgrade'
> invocation), and got the following:
It was held back for good reason, it wants to remove all your perl stuff
:>
> I can't see why these packages are even being considered here - there don't
> appear to be any dependencies between them. Anyway, even if they are it
> appears to be taking random - but consistent - potshots at my packages. I'd
> quite like it if this wasn't the case :-)
This is a side effect of the major perl upgrade, there is a subtle
relation to all the packages listed, the perl packages and each other,
they cannot co-exist and no replacements have been prepared so they must
be removed.
Jason
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