Scary upgrade thing

[Pawel Kowalak]

On Friday 14 October 2005 17:55, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > dist-upgrade won't do anything scary too.
>
> It _shouldn't_ when you're upgrading old-stable to new-stable.  But when
> you're upgrading a testing version it quite often can do very scary things.

Maybe I'm a lucky guy ;)

> > You just have to read the output
> > and check if everything will be ok after the upgrade (eg. if there is 100
> > packages to remove, better check it manually).
>
> And you don't think that's scary for the average user?  This specific
> dist-upgrade wanted to remove 78 packages.  I'd consider that scary enough
> even for an expert.  It's removing ALL of KDE for heaven's sake.  I suspect
> his sources are not pristine.  It's NOT going to do a safe upgrade.

The only KDE connected packages to remove was kdelibs4-dev, kubuntu-desktop 
and kvim. kubuntu-desktop is a meta package. "It is safe to remove this 
package if some of the desktop system packages are not desired."

I can't see anything scary in this particular dist-upgrade.