[NBLUG/talk] apt-net gone nuts

[Steve]

Something weird happened last night,  As you all may know I am new
to Debian, and I decided to go with the test tree for apt-get.  One of
my favorite aps to run in Linux is X-Chat, so I did apt-get install xchat

apt-get said something about removing some files, looked like KDE stuff.
 I wasn't sure why it wanted to remove the files, being I'm a newbie
with debian, I trusted apt-get to 'do the right thing'. So I hit enter.
apt-get did its thing.

I was happy to find that it installed the latest version of xchat, set
it all up and chatted with my friends a little.  I now had need to use
my win2k system on the same box, so I rebooted.. did
some windoze stuff and then re-booted back into debian.

Well.. startx was gone along with most of the KDE stuff.
 Why did apt-get install xchat remove startx and KDE?  this is nuts.
so I did apt-get install kde and it re-installed all of kde and startx.

Anyone know why apt-get went nuts on me this way?  Is this a hazard of
running off of the test tree instead of the stable tree?  

I really like the test tree, it seems to have stuff that is more up
to date, where are stable seems to be a little out dated. 

Anyways I wanted to share this with you guys.. This frustrated me enought
to consider going back to RedHat :) but I went to bed and got over it lol!

-Steve

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