Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Use dselect? That will tell you in its dependency resolution screens. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]