apt irritating behaviour (fam and gamin)

[S.P. van Noort]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 19:11 +0530, Sridhar Ratna wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:00:12 -0000, Adam D. Barratt
> <lists+ubuntu-devel at adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> >   apt-get install gamin- fam
> > 
> 
> That really didn't work.  I still get confirmation for removing a big
> list of packages :(.
> 
> Here's the output of apt-get ...
> 
> ==
> sri at infinity:~/CMF/fyp $ sudo apt-get install gamin- fam
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   abiword-plugins-gnome anjuta bug-buddy capplets conglomerate ...<snip>

This might have something to do with the package libgnomevfs2-common,
which in Hoary depends on libgamin0. Perhaps in the proces of installing
gamin you also upgraded this package ?

Sander