On 2015-10-29, Reindl Harald <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> wrote:
removing random packages is also really dangerous and *not*
acceptable
It does not remove random packages. It removes packages that are not
needed because the package was not installed explicitly and it's not
a transitive dependency of such explicitly installed package.
So either it's a bug in dependency specification, or the user should
mark the package as explicitly wanted.
Frankly if someone do a mass upgrade, he should expect some changes.
A contraexemple: A package splits into more subpackages. Suddenly
packages needing a moved file and requiring a package name instead of
a file name will stop work.
Are we going to fight against splitting packages?
(Better distributions have system of notifications that allows to warn
a user before the upgrade that something important is going to change.)
-- Petr