Perhaps. I've learned that if apt insists on removing a package, I can wait a week or two and the removal recommendations will go away--probably replaced by upgrade recommendations on some of the dependent packages. Temlakos On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:40, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Temlakos wrote: > > > > And when will *apt* distribute with Fedora? The best package manager > > ever invented, the best solution to the RPM dependency problem I've ever > > seen > > Don't get overboard here. Apt is doing extremely poor job if > an installation is not "absolutely depency clean" and the last > thing in practice may be not happen sometimes for multiple reasons. > I have seen cases where apt insisted on deleting half of packages > because of something obscure and unimportant. On some level it > was "right" at the given moment but also totally unhelpful and > allowing it to do what it wanted to do would be very destructive. > > Michal