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