On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:59:09AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:20:33PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > A minor issue that plagues me as a Sid user is the "broken packages" > > display. When I install foo that breaks package bar by conflicts of > > dependencies of dependencies (you get the idea), aptitude tells me that > > there are broken packages. That's nice to know, but it would be even > > better if aptitude could display a _list_ of these packages in the "g" > > view (I mean the summary that appears just before committing the changes). > > With the current release, I have to browse through the packages and hope > > to stumble on the broken ones. > > I find the following painful in aptitude: > > I select package a to install. It suddenly says package x is broken. >
Mostly in aptitude when I see a broken package, I highlight it, hit the + key, and it either works or it's really broken (i.e., something's missing). What aptitude *does* do that bugs me is sometimes packages I install with dpkg -i (such as kernels/modules) will be automagically selected for removal, if I'm not careful to reselect them.