Breezy proved costly

Out of tremendous curiosity, I had upgraded to breezy earlier this week. All looked good until xine bagan segfaulting (crashing). I removed xine, and out with it went crazily some packages that depended on something or the other. Overall, it turns out that apt isn't quite sane on the dev repository of breezy and if you don't bother to check whats getting removed or installed as probably most of us do on hoary, you might stand a chance to loose lots of applications, never to be installed again :) (apt won't let you install them).

I soon realised there was no way I could downgrade the system and there are loads of dependencies that one should probably sit weeks together to resolve if done manually. So, the inevitable: reinstall Hoary :D. Of late, I have not been very much accustomed to re-installing the whole operating system (like we used to do in windows days). Re-installing windows every one or two months to make it "faster" is still a custom with lots of windows users I've known ;) But with ubuntu, I'll have to, this time, though for an ironically different reason, a doing of my own. :D Now, I've learnt to stay away from the dev repository and keep away from adventuring into unstable stuff unless its really necessary. (Mentioned all this here, so that it can be of help to others).