On Saturday 19 June 2004 08:04, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
What's with APT dependency checking? Mozilla showed up for me (I've listed experimental components) as an upgrade candidate -- but APT claims that to install this latest Mozilla version, 14 existing packages (including gnome) will have to be removed.
My point is that I already have the previous version of Mozilla installed -- and it appears to co-exist quite well with all those packages. It seems far-fetched to me that ALL of those packages depend upon Mozilla executables, and that they will ALL be broken if I were to install this latest Mozilla version.
Grrr, mikus (linux newbie, more or less)
p.s. On another platform (not Linux) I am able to launch Mozilla IN ITS OWN SESSION in such a way that Mozilla does not share any executable modules with any other application/version.
Does Linux truly require __global__ sharing of executables, such that installing a new Mozilla can obsolete GNOME ?
I ran into this same thing just this past week. YaST says one thing, APT says something else --though close to what YaST states about the deps. The one *major* difference is that APT told me that k3b had to be eradicated & it didn't say so until the rest of the pkgs had already been d/l & were being installed. APT said [BTW] I need to remove k3b! Uh-oh... The upshot was a broken system. Konqueror, kget, YaST, et.al. all broke. -- ...CH SuSE 9 Works Linux user# 313696 Linux box# 199365