Why does the installation of gnome-vfs2-devel result in the removal of kde, zen and other packages? medion101:~ # apt -s install gnome-vfs2-devel Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dbus-1 dbus-1-devel dbus-1-glib faac faad2 gconf2-devel glib2-devel hal-devel indent lame libbonobo-devel libffmpeg0 libidl-devel libmp4v2 libmpcdec mad openssl-devel orbit2-devel x264 xvid The following packages will be upgraded dbus-1 dbus-1-glib The following packages will be REMOVED: NetworkManager NetworkManager-kde amarok amarok-xine dbus-1-mono dbus-1-qt3 dbus-1-x11 k3b kdeaddons3-kate kdeaddons3-konqueror kdebase3 kdebase3-SuSE kdebase3-nsplugin kdebase3-session kdebluetooth kdepim3 kdepim3-kpilot kdepim3-sync kerry kpowersave rug zen-updater zmd The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus-1-devel faac faad2 gconf2-devel glib2-devel gnome-vfs2-devel hal-devel indent lame libbonobo-devel libffmpeg0 libidl-devel libmp4v2 libmpcdec mad openssl-devel orbit2-devel x264 xvid 2 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 23 removed and 107 not upgraded. Remv NetworkManager (0.6.2-21 ftp4.gwdg.de) [NetworkManager-kde ] Remv NetworkManager-kde (0.1r533636-5 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv amarok (1.3.8-32 ftp4.gwdg.de) [amarok-xine ] Remv amarok-xine (1.3.8-32 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv rug (7.1.1.0-14 ftp4.gwdg.de, ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv zen-updater (7.1.0-47 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv zmd (7.1.1.0-29 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv dbus-1-mono (0.60-28 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdebase3-nsplugin (3.5.1-67 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdebluetooth (0.0.svn20060413-5 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdepim3-kpilot (3.5.1-37 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdepim3 (3.5.1-37 ftp4.gwdg.de) [kdepim3-sync ] Remv kdepim3-sync (3.5.1-37 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdebase3-session (3.5.1-67 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdebase3-SuSE (10.1-56 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv k3b (0.12.15-3.pm.1 SuSE:10.1/stable) Remv kdeaddons3-konqueror (3.5.1-16 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kerry (0.1.1-4 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdeaddons3-kate (3.5.1-16 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kdebase3 (3.5.1-67 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv kpowersave (0.6.1-5 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv dbus-1-qt3 (0.60-28 ftp4.gwdg.de) Remv dbus-1-x11 (0.60-28 ftp4.gwdg.de) Inst dbus-1 [0.60-25] (0.60-27 ftp4.gwdg.de) [dbus-1-glib ] Inst dbus-1-glib [0.60-25] (0.60-27 ftp4.gwdg.de) Inst glib2-devel (2.8.5-19 ftp4.gwdg.de) It looks like dbus-1 is rootcause: medion101:~ # apt -s install dbus-1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: dbus-1-glib faac faad2 lame libffmpeg0 libmp4v2 libmpcdec mad x264 xvid The following packages will be upgraded dbus-1 dbus-1-glib The following packages will be REMOVED: NetworkManager NetworkManager-kde amarok amarok-xine dbus-1-mono dbus-1-qt3 dbus-1-x11 k3b kdeaddons3-kate kdeaddons3-konqueror kdebase3 kdebase3-SuSE kdebase3-nsplugin kdebase3-session kdebluetooth kdepim3 kdepim3-kpilot kdepim3-sync kerry kpowersave rug zen-updater zmd The following NEW packages will be installed: faac faad2 lame libffmpeg0 libmp4v2 libmpcdec mad x264 xvid 2 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 23 removed and 107 not upgraded. Weird. Installing gnome-vfs2-devel in 10.0 using apt did not result in these undesired removals... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless