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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:32:18 -0500
Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

> I run Debian (Mepis install, basically Debian Testing/Unstable) on my laptop, 
> and I have been using apt-get quite happily for about a month or two now.  
> However, I recently had a huge number of packages upgrade after an apt-get 
> upgrade (I'm assuming because of the new Debian 3.0r4), and now I have a 
> whole big list of "packages kept back" when I do apt-get upgrade.  
> 
> What does this mean, and why are they being held back?  They look to be mostly
> updated KDE packages.  Should I be doing apt-get dist-upgrade ?  Are they 
> being held back due to possible conflicts?
> 
> -Jay
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