FAM want to remove *lots* of stuff on breezy machine

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sun Oct 30 20:47:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:15:09 -0500
Rich Duzenbury <rduz at westernmidrange.com> wrote:

> Hi again ubuntu-ers!
> 
> I was attempting to install FAM on a breezy box today and it wants to
> remove the world.  
> 
> I took a look at the dependencies of the fam package, and the breezy box
> seems to exceed them as near as I can tell.
> 
> Would you mind taking a moment to explain why this is so?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > apt-get install fam
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done

<big snip>

This was recently answered on this list.
Breezy no longer uses fam - it uses gamin. Thus attempting to install fam results in the long list you presented ;-)

Peter


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