Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Upgrading VL 5.8 via slapt-get --dist-upgrade

[uel a. <ue...@gm...>]

>
> Decided to keep gambas-runtime, less problematic as it is that way on
> the iso. Figured there won't be non-unified Gambas packages for VL any
> time soon. Uploaded repackages with fixed deps (I hope) of the
> following:
>
> vl-hot
> vcpufreq
> gambas
>
> I'm still unsure how to handle the gambas-runtime / gambas issue. That
> is, when gambas is installed, it will overwrite the gambas-runtime
> files, but both packages will still show up as installed. Also, if
> gambas is then uninstalled, gambas-runtime would then be broken,
> right? So gambas apps won't run. I remember asking before, but still,
> any ideas?


removepkg is supposed to check  for this and not remove a file that exists
in a package that is not being removed.
but as always the only way you can be certain is to give it a try.