I've hosed my own system several times over. Sometimes it's not your
fault, but you should pick the best tools for managing your packages (I'm
surprised no one mentioned "aptitude" yet! You get to examine package
conflicts and decide to accept/reject certain actions.)
a brief tale of shared blame:
I surf through my packages and see a newer version of libc6. Huh,
okay--let's install it. No new packages listed (I should have checked the
"removed packages"). Go!
Then, I realize in horror that almost everything on my system has been
uninstalled. Turns out all the dependency information did not carry over
to the new libc package. It cost me a few hours to dig through the cache,
generate a list of packages and run "apt-get" on the list.
Chuck
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Will Godfrey
<willgodfrey@email-addr-hiddenwrote:
> did the debian devs think they were doing?
>
> My music machine is set up precisely as I want it with no spare fluff or
> eye-candy, and fits my workflow like a glove. I seldom make any changes,
> but
> thought it high time I checked for upgraded packages. Up till now this has
> never been any kind of problem and usually results in some tiny overall
> improvements.
>
> Today was different. Without asking, indeed, without even a warning, they
> installed GDM, Gnome3 and pulse audio, thus rendering my computer totally
> useless. The only thing I could do was reboot, then log into recovery mode,
> find aptitude and delete the crap.
>
> I will never really trust debian again :(
>
>
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