Hello everybody, this is kind of OT for rails, but hopefully somebody can help me. I''m on Debian testing, apt says there are ruby updates available but they''re held back because they want to remove a boatload of packages. This is the message I get: # apt-get install irb1.8 libdbm-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: ruby1.8-examples The following packages will be REMOVED: libbigdecimal-ruby1.8 libcurses-ruby1.8 libdl-ruby1.8 libdrb-ruby1.8 liberb-ruby1.8 libiconv-ruby1.8 libpty-ruby1.8 libracc-runtime-ruby1.8 librexml-ruby1.8 libsoap-ruby1.8 libstrscan-ruby1.8 libsyslog-ruby1.8 libtest-unit-ruby1.8 libwebrick-ruby1.8 libxmlrpc-ruby1.8 libyaml-ruby1.8 libzlib-ruby1.8 The following packages will be upgraded: irb1.8 libdbm-ruby1.8 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 rdoc1.8 ri1.8 ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev 9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 17 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3667kB of archives. After unpacking 6427kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] A lot of those packages it wants to remove look important. Will rails implode without them? It looks like the new packages obsolete the old ones but I''m worried that if I remove those packages, it''ll break rails and my server will come crashing down in a giant fireball of unsatisfied dependencies. Thanks. -- Urban Artography http://artography.ath.cx