On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that > > > you may have other packages that also use the same support package. > > > You would have to grep the dependency database to ensure you > > > weren't removing a library/package that was used elsewhere. > > > Even then, you may have programs in /usr/local that are not tracked > > > by dpkg and need one of those libraries.
I think that this is an issue not only when packages are uninstalled but also when packages are upgraded. I have had trouble recently with three seperate machines (two at work and one at home) where Netscape works, then doesn't work, then works again ... I have not identified the *exact* source of the problem, however, it is different to the errors that I have been seeing reported in this mailing list. The problem *appears* to be caused by updates to the "locales" package - certainly the bi-polar mood swings in Netscape exactly correspond with "apt-get upgrade"s to my systems. Has anyone else had similar experiences when doing upgrades? I've suspected for some time that it would be useful to reconfigure dependent packages when lower-level packages are upgraded. Needles to say, this could be very time consuming when very low level packages are upgraded (such as libc). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Communications Analyst +61-2-9554-0000 (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284 (mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------
