Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Wynona Stacy Lockwood
<stacy at guppylog.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:


>> The problem remains that I can not now update the system without
>> updating all packages.
>
> That's laughably false. NO ONE is forcing you to use any particular
> tool in this way. You have options. Just off the top of my head, one
> way to do this is, you could upgrade the packages by name, one at a
> time, or all at once via the command line by explicitly specifying
> them.

The problem with upgrading specific packages (rather than using
"apt-get [dist-]upgrade") is that, unless you are very careful,
packages that were previously marked as having been installed
automatically will be marked as having been installed purposefully.
Should you then uninstall a package, its unused dependencies will not
be uninstalled.


> Now one says you must use synaptic, which is deprecated anyway.

I don't use synaptic but I'm curious about this. Is synaptic being
called deprecated because it's not compatible with wayland? Will it
never be wayland-compatible? Does this mean that, with wayland, gtk
DEs will use packagekit and qt DEs will use muon? Can these two use
apt as a backend?