On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:31:25PM +0200 or thereabouts, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question about upgrading the system. > > When I upgraded some time ago from slink to potato and then woody, I > had a package, ncurses3.4 installed on the system... This package is > <really> old, but it's not replaced with libncurses4 or > libncurses5. So, I simply erased it without any dependency problem. > > My question is that how can all packages with the same problem as this > be removed between upgrades ? Some are old or obsolete and the system > doesn't requires them any more, but when you have -a lot- of packages > installed, it is impossible to find which of this are. > > Thanks.
that's odd. are you sure you did an update first before doing a dist-upgrade? -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825