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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 22.12.2013 04:48, schrieb david:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:52B66129.7040406@hawaii.rr.com" type="cite">On
12/21/2013 01:41 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:23:42 +0000
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Will Godfrey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:willgodfrey@musically.me.uk"><willgodfrey@musically.me.uk></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">did the debian devs think they were
doing?
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<br>
My music machine is set up precisely as I want it with no
spare fluff
<br>
or eye-candy, and fits my workflow like a glove. I seldom make
any
<br>
changes, but thought it high time I checked for upgraded
packages. Up
<br>
till now this has never been any kind of problem and usually
results
<br>
in some tiny overall improvements.
<br>
<br>
Today was different. Without asking, indeed, without even a
warning,
<br>
they installed GDM, Gnome3 and pulse audio, thus rendering my
<br>
computer totally useless. The only thing I could do was
reboot, then
<br>
log into recovery mode, find aptitude and delete the crap.
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I will never really trust debian again :(
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apt-get upgrade didn't show what it was planning to do? That
sounds
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unlikely, but if it did happen, then something is very wrong in
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debian-land.
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Hmmm, haven't had Debian do that to me. A DIST-UPGRADE might have
messed things up, but not a straight upgrade. A straight upgrade
doesn't install things you don't already have installed unless (I
think) they're a dependency of something else you already have
installed. IOW, you already had something on there that involved
GDM, Gnome3 or PulseAudio.
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Funny, I did a full dist-upgrade on my debian-sid box yesterday,
which <i>remove</i> GDM. But indeed, apt-get informs me before
about any new package, as well about any package it wish to remove.<br>
So I switch to lightdm before the dist-upgrade. <br>
By the way, you should be careful with a "straight upgrade" on
debian sid, better do a DIST-UPGRADE, because, for example,
library’s could come in new, non-compatible versions, which make it
necessary to remove older versions before they get replaced with
newer ones (with changed names). When you only do "straight
upgrade", you will end up sooner or later in a unstable system
state. <br>
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