On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:35:18PM -0500, Aaron Hall > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > My sid box has cupsys and xpdf-utils installed (among a bunch of other > > things). When I run "aptitude safe-upgrade", aptitude runs through its > > normal prep, followed by many lines of "Resolving dependencies...", > > followed by: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > xpdf-utils: Conflicts: poppler-utils but 0.8.2-2 is to be installed. > > poppler-utils: Conflicts: xpdf-utils but 3.02-1.3 is installed. > > [snip] > > I ran into this on my own computer recently. Unfortunately, it's not > trivial to solve. The problem came up because of an interaction between > the code to remove unused packages and the code to resolve dependencies: > if a package is installed that requires something being removed because > it's unused, the unused package will be put back on the system. That's > fine, but the resolver doesn't know that, and so it produces a solution > that breaks dependencies after it's applied.
Ah, I see now. Just for fun, I ran "aptitude unmarkauto xpdf-utils" to keep it from getting removed, then "aptitude safe-upgrade", and indeed it was happy. (As an aside, I think it's wonderful that you're willing to take time out to answer questions on this list. Thanks yet again.) - Aaron -- Aaron Hall : "Poor soul, very sad; her late husband, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : you know, a very sad death -- eaten by : missionaries, poor soul..." : -- Rev. Wm. Spooner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]