Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 14 nov 12, 10:48:10, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > My opinion is that Debian offer a very nice of doing things for > releases: > _ one stable release, like the one you can find in proprietary > software world, with a consequence of stability, ease of use, and > you know that ther

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 16. nov. 2012 03:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500 Charles Kroeger wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 Chris Bannister wrote: Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I didn'

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:51:32 -0500 Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( > > I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I > didn't? Multiboot? Sid + Testing or

Re: sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:30:02 +0100 Chris Bannister wrote: > Please don't run Sid, if you don't understand the risk( I like risk, why else would I run it, how could I understand it if I didn't? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

sid is not for newbies. (was ... Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:)

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:30:01 +0100 > Steven Post wrote: > > > the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the > > multiarch > > way of doing things. > > So...now we wait, is that about it? Please don't ru

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:30:01 +0100 Steven Post wrote: > the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the > multiarch > way of doing things. So...now we wait, is that about it? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Arno Schuring
Ralf Mardorf (ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net on 2012-11-14 19:41 +0100): > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > And if for Debian udev still should be available as an > independent package, then because Debian maintainers extract it from > systemd, "In April 2012, udev's source tree was

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >>> I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from >>> init to upstart, the averaged Arch user is aware of th

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from > > init to upstart, the averaged Arch user is aware of the switch from > > initscripts to systemd. I wonder if it

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:30 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from > > init to upstart, the averaged Arch user is aware of the switch from > > initscripts to systemd. I wonder if it

Re: OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I guess the averaged Ubuntu user isn't aware that Ubuntu switched from > init to upstart, the averaged Arch user is aware of the switch from > initscripts to systemd. I wonder if it was possible to Upgrade from > Ubuntu old school to Ubuntu

OT: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:48 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > PS: yes, I install debian regularly... Because I love to play with > highly critical files like init scripts or boot loaders. This is my > way to understand how things works: tinker to learn , and if you break > things, try

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Steven Post
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is > > apt-get > > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > > > Does it need to remove the non-free

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:11 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf: >> >>> I can't speak for this particular case, but sometimes it seems to be >>> less work to make a new install. >> >> … which won't help in this case. > > If it's a transition issue, why wouldn't help a in

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread berenger . morel
Le 14.11.2012 10:27, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:11 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, and >> the non-free 3rd party packages ha

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 10:11 +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Ralf Mardorf: > > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > >> > >> I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, > >> and > >> the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, >> and >> the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the >> multiarch >> way of doing things. > > The disadvantage of up

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is > > apt-get > > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > > > Does it need to remove the non-free

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-14 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:00:41PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > So since I don't have 'aptitude or aptitude-common' installed, why is apt-get > trying to remove all my non-free programs? > > Does it need to remove the non-free stuff before it can upgrade ia32-libs > ia32-libs-gtk? I suspect wh

Re: The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-13 Thread berenger . morel
Packages installed as automatic, and removed because no-one depends on them, maybe? Le 13.11.2012 21:00, Charles Kroeger a écrit : acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-xulrunner lib32v4l-0 mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper softmaker

The following packages will be REMOVED:

2012-11-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-xulrunner lib32v4l-0 mozilla-acroread nspluginwrapper softmaker-office-2012 Now why would a 'dist-upgrade' want to do such a thing? Then there's this: 'apt-get -u upgrade' The following packages h