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Hi Christoph,
2007-04-23 15:05 Christoph Pleger:
Hello,
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:03:00 -0700
Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:31:31AM +0200, Christoph Pleger
<christoph.ple...@cs.uni-dortmund.de> was heard to say:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:37:16 -0700
> Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > It looks like the problem is that aptitude is noticing that you
> > have a
> > pile of unresolved recommendations and fixing them for you. The
> > weird thing, to me, is that there are no candidates to resolve the
> > recommendations, which I bet is why aptitude insists on removing
> > the packages.
>
> When I add cupsys-bsd to the package list which I set by "dpkg
> --set-selections", all desired packages are installed. But I do not
> want do that, see below.
What I mean by that is that aptitude can't find any way to resolve
the
recommendations, other than removing the recommenders. Eliminating
all hard dependency conflicts "fixes" the problem because aptitude
doesn't have to resolve dependencies at all (it only notices broken
recommendations when it's kicked into dependency resolution).
Have you tried turning down the penalty for leaving recommendations
unsatisfied?
That helped, but I think that aptitude should never let packages
uninstalled only because of recommendations that cannot be fulfilled.
I am not aware of such problems for a long time, and there are no other
similar bug reports.
Are you aware of this still happening nowadays?
I can try to reproduce it, but for that I have to find such a package or
create an artificial one... might take a bit to get around doing it.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
