On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:08, Andreas Wüst wrote: > > Am Montag, 28.07.03, um 16:46 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > >> Yes, of course it works if I put gnome-session and xlibs into the same > >> line. But you asked about the packages which get upgraded > >> *additionally*, but since gnome-session alone doesn't work, I can > >> *only* tell you which packages get upgraded at all by adding xlibs, > >> and > >> not which packages are *additionally* upgraded compared to an install > >> line with only gnome-session!! > > > > I mean in addition to gnome-session and xlibs (and possibly what > > gnome-session alone complains about). > > Sorry, I still don't get it. In respective to what?? gnome-sessions > complaint has been attached to the last post, it was the first > paragraph of the output!
Sure, I merely tried to explain what I meant by what you already snipped above. > >>> The thing is, I can still only speculate about what you're trying to > >>> do > >>> and what happens... > >> > >> Ok, now, a lot of ouput follows. > > > > You can't expect to gain information by trying only one package at a > > time in general, so you could have saved some. :) > > Huh?? You mean, I can't find the problem when following only one of the > dependencies? Yes, _in general_, because some problems like this only manifest themselves with certain combinations of packages. > Or e.g. you could also try something simple as > > # apt-get -u -t unstable install xterm > > This directly leads to the broken dependency on xlibs! Good idea, does this yield more information? > >> The following NEW packages will be installed: > > > > This could be the reason why it wouldn't upgrade xlibs automatically; > > it still doesn't tell why it needs to install these for upgrading > > xlibs though, maybe some versioned dependency. > > Which means what? I don't know. :( All this fuss and none the wiser. Keep digging, good luck. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
