Scary upgrade thing

[Derek Broughton]

Pawel Kowalak wrote:

> On Friday 14 October 2005 17:55, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > dist-upgrade won't do anything scary too.
> 
>> > 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. 

It seems neither of us read that very well.  It removes kdelibs4, which I'd
consider essential to any KDE install ... however, I missed that it
installs kdelibs4c2, so it doesn't matter.
> 
> I can't see anything scary in this particular dist-upgrade.

Still - I think if you can blithely ignore an upgrade that removes kdelibs
you're a lot calmer than me :-)
-- 
derek