On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, John Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 18:47:39 +0200 > Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I really dont understand this one, > > I did a distrobution upgrade mmmm! > > > > I rebooted and gnome and kde have been uninstalled. > > I don't know what else, So I have reloaded from the cds. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > My experience with synaptic (not extensive, admittedly) is that it > resolves rpm dependency problems by removing the packages it doesn't > like. If you have custom built packages that don't exactly match what > is in the distribution database, then bye-bye custom packages. I never > found any way to configure this behavior, like the rpm "--nodeps" > switch. Synaptic used a slightly different algorithm for "fix broken dependencies" than apt up to 0.47 (for unknown historical reasons basically). Beginning with 0.48 it should behave much nicer. > > > Is there a way to prevent it happening again? > > Other than "don't use synaptic?" I never found one. IMHO, Red Carpet is > much nicer in this way. The fix is to keep your rpm database consistent - never use --nodeps or --force to install/upgrade/erase with rpm. - Panu -
