Re: [Synaptic-devel] hungry synaptic

[Michael Vogt]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 02:15:57PM +0100, jb wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,

> I'm using Synaptic 0.55.3 on FC3 with freshrpms repositories. After 
> having done some package updates (mostly gnome an Xorg) when I try to 
> update some pkgs synaptic asks to remove (not update) whole lists of 
> pkgs. For instance when I try to update rpm it wants to remove, among 
> others, apt and synaptic! I assume something's gone wrong with
> dependencies?

Yes, synaptic/apt can only be as smart as the dependencies in the
repositories it manages. It looks like you either mix two (or more)
repositories that have incompatible dependencies and/or that the
dependency relations are not very well defined.

Cheers,
 Michael

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