[kubuntu-users] Problem updating kde!!

[Derek Broughton]

On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:39, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:34:25PM +0200, C?sar Ramos wrote:
> > When I will dist-update, I have problem!!! why?
> >
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   akregator amarok amarok-arts ark artsbuilder dcoprss digikam gwenview
> > juk etc
>
> Because you're using breezy which is currently in the middle of a
> large c++ transition.
>
> It should have settled down by next week, in the mean time best not to
> use breezy on anything too important.

And note, he didn't even have to ask you _what_ release you were using (or 
what command you really issued).

Please don't use dist-upgrade indiscriminately.  Breezy isn't supposed to be 
stable, and there will always be times like this that things will break with 
a dist-upgrade.  I do "aptitude update; aptitude --download-only 
dist-upgrade", daily (because I have a fast pipe) in a cron job.  Then later 
I'll do "aptitude dist-upgrade" and if it tells me it wants to remove 
anything that looks important, I cancel and do an upgrade, instead.  Upgrade 
will update anything that can be safely done without removing anything else 
or installing anything new.  If the dist-upgrade showed new packages would be 
installed, I might try installing them, too, but only if I have too much time 
on my hands.
-- 
derek