| Stephen Gran on 29 Apr 2006 10:42:20 -0000 |
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:10:53AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said: > I'm trying to figure out why upgrading gnome-core (already installed) > would remove gnome-desktop-environment. This seems like something I > should care about, but maybe there's a package transition going on > that I missed and so I shouldn't care. > > I'm not clear on how to figure out what's going on here. Although an > answer to my confusion would be great, I'd really like to understand > also how to answer this sort of question in general. Examine what's going to be removed: > The following packages will be REMOVED > gnome-desktop-environment gnomemeeting libcamel1.2-0 libebook1.2-3 > libedataserverui1.2-4 > The following NEW packages will be installed The thing I would do to figure it out is to check what gnome-desktop-environment depends on - it probably includes gnomemeeting. gnomemeeting probably depends on one of the libraries being removed. The libraries being removed is due to either a maintainer having over aggressive conflicts, or a real problem with coinstallability. probably gnomemeeting (or ekiga now, I think) probably hasn't been rebuilt against some newer version of the libraries, and it's being force removed. This is all guesswork, but that's the sort of logic I use to start examining things. apt-cache show, grep-dctrl, and other tools for examining dependencies is the only way to really find out. I don't happen to have a testing environment handy to find out for sure, so I am just guessing and pointing you to how I might start. Also, note that gnome-desktop-environment is just a meta package with no functionality in and of itself. It can be removed with no ill effects. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass | | steve@lobefin.net | your way again. -- Lazarus Long, | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | "Time Enough for Love" | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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