> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/910ff72185b00d75/d3f54810f571795f?lnk=st&q=antgel&rnum=8&hl=en#d3f54810f571795f
Thanks for the link but I'm afraid I couldn't find an answer to my question there. 1) The thread alleged that the removed packages were marked as automatically installed - at least in my case, they were not. It removed manually installed (i. e. selected in aptitude and marked with [+]) packages in order to upgrade others. My impression was that everything not marked with A counts as manually installed, am I wrong? 2) Quoting from the thread: "The main thing to keep in mind is that "aptitude upgrade" will upgrade packages and hold back packages with dependency problems." That might be true for commandline aptitude but not for the interactive version. The interactive version will upgrade packages and remove packages with dependency problems. Maybe it defaults to dist-upgrade, but why? Please be aware that I'm not trying to bash the new dep handling here - it's just that I've been using dselect / apt-get for years and it seems like a step backwards to me. C.
