On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 06:08:34PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Matthew Rogers wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like you need to
>>>
>>> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
>>>
>>> before you
>>>
>>> apt-get install pan
>>
>> Did that. Same song, second verse:
>>
>> root@pc:~# apt-get install pan
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>
> <snip> of list
>
>> 79 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 58 to remove and 773 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 61.8MB of archives.
>> After unpacking 52.6MB disk space will be freed.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>>
>> I ^C-ed it.
>>
>
> In many cases, Debian et al, reconfigure packages, obsoleting packages,
> but replacing them with equivalent functionality. For example, in the
> cupsys stuff above. Cupsys itself goes away, but cupsys-client,
> cupsys-common are added instead. It's probably a wash-- just
> Debian/Ubuntu realigning packages with a different scheme. It doesn't
> look like you're losing fetchmail, just fetchmailconf, which isn't a
> loss. You do lose synaptic, but I'm guessing that after this evolution,
> you can get it back.
It's doing its thing.
> Just keep track of what packages you *really* want. Once you
> update/upgrade, go back to aptitude or synaptic and see if they're still
> installed or upgradable, etc.
OK.
-- The mnky gibbering and screeching used to keep me up at night, although in the lst week or so it's prtty mch tailed off to nthng. The smell has gttn noticbly worse in the last cple of days, too. The next time I get a barrl full of mnkys, I'm going to try taking the lid off. -groo, AFCA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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