Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-03-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:34:12PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > > > >>The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of > >>kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on >

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. I reall

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:05:36PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > The more likely cause of this behavior is the "Replaces" field of > kdelibs-data. I think apt-get will automatically try to install on > dist-upgrade any package that claims to replace an installed package. I really hope not. That

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Travis Crump
Jonathan Matthews wrote: Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] Th

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Jonathan Matthews: > I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is > doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl > invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on > kdelibs-data. Yes, I know "kdelibs & kdelibs4"

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread nate
Jonathan Matthews said: > I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is > doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl > invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on > kdelibs-data. Yes, I know "kdelibs & kdelibs4", but ne

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:56:32PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde > from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" > thing anyway[1] :-) > > I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: > >

Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:56:32PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is > doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl > invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on > kdelibs-da

How to find out apt-get's reasoning

2003-02-28 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" thing anyway[1] :-) I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u [snip] The following NEW packages