Re: Bug#167268: apt: Strange dependancy interaction with apt with multiple releases in sources.list
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Now, with these changes, it is reinstalling shellutils and textutils which I
> have uninstalled because they're just psudo-packages in testing. But after
> I let it be installed, and try to remove the packages, it thinks they're
> required[3] for a working system (which they're not anymore in testing...) just
> like they were in stable.
Packages that have a mixture of essential/non-essential versions will
act like this. It's normal and expected, people should really not be
screwing around with essential packages like this.
Jason
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