[LAU] What on earth...

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:23:42 +0000
Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:

> 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 :(

apt-get upgrade didn't show what it was planning to do? That sounds
unlikely, but if it did happen, then something is very wrong in
debian-land.

Regards,
Philipp