In order to get a bug fixed, I'm doing an upgrade. Dependencies on
dependencies on dependencies have started to pull in a bunch of the *c102
transition libraries...
...which conflict with most everything installed on the system (by design)...
...such as all of KDE:
/usr/bin/apt-get -y -d dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-games gnome-media gnome-panel
gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-utils kchart
kde-theme-qnix kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-libs
kdelibs3 kdelibs3-bin kdepasswd kdepim-libs kdevelop kdevelop-data
kdf kdm kedit kfind kfloppy kfocus kformula kfract kgeo kghostview
khexedit kiconedit kivio kjezz kjots kjumpingcube kleandisk klines klpq
kmago kmahjongg kmail kmines kmix kmoon knetload knode knotes kodo
koffice koffice-libs konq-plugins konqueror konquest konsole kontour
konverse korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpat kpm kpresenter
kprof kreatecd krecord kreversi kruler ksame kscd kscreensaver
kshisen ksirc ksmiletris ksnake ksnapshot ksokoban kspaceduel kspread
kstars ksysv ktalkd kteatime ktexmaker2 ktimer ktuberling ktux kugar
kuser kview kvirc kweather kwin4 kword kworldclock libbonoboui2-0
libbonoboui2-common libfam0 libgnome-desktop-0 libgnome2-0
libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtk-common
libkdegames libkdenetwork1 libkmid libkonq3 libpanel-applet2-0
libpango-common libstlport4.5 rep-gtk-gnome yelp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fontconfig libast2 libfam0c102 libmagick5.5.3 libssl0.9.7
libstartup-notification0 libstlport4.5c102
The following packages will be upgraded
[ many ]
182 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 116 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
How do I tell dselect (or apt-get, if that's what I need to use) to leave k*
the hell alone? It bitches at me if I try to put them on hold manually.
Phil
(Yes, I would love to downgrade to testing, but dselect doesn't know what
to do when required packages don't exist in "more-stabler" distros.)
--
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
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