[rubin110]

I'm a little confused, is doing a dist-upgrade not advisable? I did a standard upgrade fine, it rebooted without issue, however now when I attempt a dist-upgrade I see...

Terminal

xbian@xbian ~ $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for xbian:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
upstart xbian-package-config-xbmc xbian-package-lirc xbian-package-xbmc xbian-package-xbmc-gotham-nightly
xbian-update
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libtasn1-3-dev sysvinit u-boot-tools
The following packages have been kept back:
libsystemd-login0
The following packages will be upgraded:
xbian-package-initramfs-tools xbian-package-vnc-server
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
xbian-update xbian-package-lirc (due to xbian-update) upstart (due to xbian-update) xbian-package-xbmc (due to
xbian-update)
2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 6 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 602 kB of archives.
After this operation, 87.0 MB disk space will be freed.
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I have a feeling maybe I got myself into a package depends screw up with having that Gotham test installed. :(