On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Brian May wrote: > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > perl-5.004-base (due to perl-base)
I'm confused, why is this a bug? You asked it to remove a key component of perl, perl is an essential package, doing this may not actually complete, and it may break *inst/*rm scripts that need to be run, so it complains. > apt-get dist-upgrade would work, but I want to remove my Helix packages It likely found a way to do this upgrade without getting rid of perl-5.004-base, that is what it is designed to do.. > The thing is, I can't even see how this is meant to work: > > dewey:~# dpkg --print-avail perl-base Try looking at the current version of perl-base, and then look at the thing that actually provides the pre-depends it needs, which in this case will be perl-5.004-base. This has very little to do with the packages you are going to install. Jason
