Hi! Forgive the facetious thread title, please. I just about got knocked out of my socks this morning when I ran my daily upgrade checks in aptitude.
I run Debian testing with Xfce, and I'd like to keep it that way. About a year ago I switched out Wicd for network-manager-gnome so that I could make use of the latter package's ability to control VPN connections. I guess that's the root cause of this little adventure. (However, IIRC, Xfce has started using network-manager-gnome instead of Wicd anyway.) This morning the usual upgrades included a gnome-bluetooth updgrade that wanted to pull in what appeared to be just about everything from the Gnome DE -- roughly 117 packages. The gnome-bluetooth package was apparently on the system because the network manager wants it there. This was easy enough to prevent. I just held everything while I got rid of gnome-bluetooth and its playmates, then put a forbid on gnome-bluetooth. The ensuing upgrade attempt was a lot more reasonable. I don't suppose this really qualifies as a bug -- particularly since network-manager-gnome really is a part of the Gnome DE. But I imagine a few folks who use it in other DEs are going to be a little consternated by today's upgrades if they don't pay fairly close attention before committing to them. Thanks for reading my tale of woe (whoa?). J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51d03b7d.9080...@comcast.net
