Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages [LWN.net]

Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

Posted Nov 4, 2016 16:49 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
Parent article: Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

It's not like the distributions dependency handling is that great - I recently tried to upgrade Firefox on Kubuntu and apt-get wanted to upgrade the Linux kernel as well...

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Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

Posted Nov 7, 2016 18:07 UTC (Mon) by hkario (subscriber, #94864) [Link] (1 responses)

and what pulled in the new kernel as a dependency?

Re: Lots and lots of tiny node.js packages

Posted Nov 9, 2016 10:46 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]

I have no idea. Actually it wasn't apt-get (at least on the surface), but some GUI tool that showed that there are software packages to upgrade (and listed way too many). I cleared the list, selected only Firefox and that automatically selected the Linux kernel packages too. Tried again (this tool/OS can't be that stupid), but got the same result. Since then the warning in gmail (Firefox is too old) is simply ignored.