Anthony Towns wrote:- > The problem here is some weird bug in apt's analysis of which packages are > mor important: it's deciding to remove perl-5.005 and keep data-dumper, > instead of the other way around, for some reason. > > Easiest way to avoid this nastiness is to apt-get remove data-dumper > first.
Is there an easy way here to see which package is at the root of the chain of dependencies and causing problems? I found it by trial-and-error, but it can be terribly opaque. Neil.
