grub dependency problem

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 10 October 2009 03:09:59 pm Paul Lemmons wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 October 2009, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> >> Now, I have no desire to remove grub-pc because that is what I am 
using
> >> to boot with. Grub, on the other hand, I think should have been
> >> replaced by grub-pc. I hesitate to remove it though for fear of not
> >> being able to boot. Most packages I am a little more caviler about but
> >> the ability to boot is fairly near and dear to my heart :)
> >
> > I am running the karmic beta  without any 'backports'   and have no
> > problems with grub  other than the fact that it screws up the boot of any
> > old releases of *ubuntu.  I've reported that.
> >
> > What is the purpose of the backports?  (in your case)
> 
> I have always had backports turned on. I hate waiting for 6 months for
> some updated software and so far backports has always delivered stable
> and current releases of the software I use the most.
> 

there aren't any 'backports' for karmic yet, as backports are packages from 
the *next* version. The archive is there, but there are as of yet no packages 
in there right now. While they are considered (and labeled as) unsupported, in 
this case they are  not causing any problems :)

clay