Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

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Date: 09/16/05

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    Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:47:25 -0500
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    On 9/15/05, Byron Hillis <the.metric@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > Therefore if you install g-d-e and it pulls in everything for your GNOME
    > desktop environment, then ALL the packages that it does pull in will be
    > marked as Automatic. Therefore, if through a dependency problem, i.e.
    > sound-juicer, the g-d-e cannot be properly upgraded, then if you
    > remove g-d-e, all the GNOME desktop will be removed because
    > aptitude thinks that they were only installed to satisfy the dependency.
    > Thus you get a mess.

    I'm not sure if that's unique to Aptitude. I use Synaptic most of the
    time, and sometimes apt-get directly when Synaptic won't let me force
    more than one package at a time to come from unstable. But I still
    can't upgrade to GNOME 2.10 (all of it; I have some parts of it from
    2.10) because of sound-juicer. *sigh*

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