Bug#721677: more background on the gnome-user-share bug

[Stefan Krastanov]

Thanks again, I have one, hopefully last, question.

The following command:
 sudo aptitude -t experimental install gnome-control-center

asks to remove xorg and gnome-session and a few more
important-sounding packages. Won't this break the desktop environment?
Does it mean that I should just wait for all the transitions to be
dealt with?

On 9 September 2013 05:13, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> Hello Stefan!
>
> As you already noticed, you need to install from experimental.
>
> You'll also need to update alot of the dependencies for gnome-control-center.
>
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 08:24:56PM -0400, Stefan Krastanov wrote:
>> And in experimental I got:
> [...]
>> Should I try to report this to anybody or should I just wait for the
>> packages to trickle down to my current distribution.
>
> apt(itude) will not upgrade packages to experimental version unless
> you explicitly tell it to. So you either need to specify all packages
> (dependencies of g-c-c) as you want to install from experimental
> or take a shortcut and temporary set experimental as the default and
> preferred distribution with "-t experimental" (which might pull in a bit
> more from experimental then really necessary, but probably not much).
>
> The transitions are being dealt with and you don't need to report
> bugs about it. Again, I'm sorry for the inconvenience of the current
> half-upgraded state.
>
> --
> Andreas Henriksson