Even apt-get seems to be slightly broken. Fortunately with apt-get on the commandline it gives this warning. This is not a happy thing to see otherwise. The new release notes suggest using aptitude over dselect anyway.
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
[long snip] 1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 226 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 1550kB of archives. After unpacking 258MB will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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For the record, UCI has a local Redhat mirror:x
ftp://andromeda.acs.uci.edu/mirrors/linu
Even apt-get seems to be slightly broken. Fortunately with apt-get on the commandline it gives this warning. This is not a happy thing to see otherwise. The new release notes suggest using aptitude over dselect anyway.
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
[long snip]
1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 226 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1550kB of archives. After unpacking 258MB will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
?]