Does Warty need modutils ?

thomas tom_hoary at web.de
Wed Dec 29 07:36:10 UTC 2004


Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 22:15 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 12:51 -0800 schrieb Bob Nielsen:
> > No.  This is a "dummy" package which has dependencies for a large number 
> > of packages.  Removing one of them causes ubuntu-desktop to be removed, 
> > as well.  The other packages will continue to be upgraded.
> thats not completely true, on upgrade to a new stable version this
> dependencys change to remove obsolete software and install all the new
> goodies that should be in the new desktop environment, so its essential
> to install it again right before you upgrade. you can also (if you like
> the effort) look on which packages the ubuntu-desktop metapackage in the
> stable hoary depends (if its out then) and install all these
> manually....

Well, this will be the only chance if you already upgraded to OO-1.1.3
and removed ubuntu-desktop along with OO-1.1.2 , isn't it?

Thomas





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