Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Steve Newcomb
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: > > I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed > > lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, > > it worked fine. > > >

package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, it worked fine. So I reviewed what I had done the last time, and, yes, I had installed a few other packages before attempting to remove cupsys. They were: emacs, cvs, s

package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I am a long-time Debian user and sysadmin and I'm very frustrated these days. There seems no way out of my problem, other than to re-install the entire OS from scratch and then simply *not* attempt to replace cupsys, which still doesn't work. I have fallen into this "now start all over" trap seve