On Friday 02 September 2005 06:12 pm, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Ever since ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/9.3-i386/gnome was provided, I have been using it with apt-get to update the packages on my system. Recently, __some__ packages were upleveled to use a new cairo and placed in that depository. But __other__ packages, which I had already installed on my system, were NOT upleveled at the time.
When today I type 'apt-get dist-upgrade', it offers to upgrade a bunch of packages, but would REMOVE 64 PACKAGES from my system, many of which I'd rather keep (e.g., 'gdm' and 'gnome-panel' and 'gnome-themes' and 'totem').
I __WISH__ the 9.3 Gnome component depository on ftp.gwdg.de would provide "compatible" packages to upgrade what is in my system, instead of causing apt-get to threaten to remove so many.
[Or else NOT put packages into that depository which cause lots of previously distributed packages to become "not compatible".]
Mikus I don't know about the gnome repository because I do not use it. I have been using apt-get for many years though. First try "upgrade" instead of "dist-upgrade". There is a difference. Usually when apt-get does that there have been wholesale package changes where many of the programs have been moved around. apt is trying to sort that out for you. As I said, I know nothing about the gnome packaging. Just something to think about. Bob S.