Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
>> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the >> dependencies satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install >> foo), aptitude allows you to interactively pick other solutions, or >> tell it what to do: > Have you been able to get that effect from aptitude? It seems that > whenever it sees some trouble (sometimes even when plain apt-get would > succeed), it proposes to remove the world, install a few unrelated > packages, and not do whatever you requested it to. After declining a > varying number of such "solutions", it gives up even if it would take a > single action to resolve the problem. That's not my experience. The first suggestion is sometimes wrong, but usually if there is a valid approach (and sometimes there isn't), the right solution will be in the first three, or more rarely in the first five. I use this functionality all the time, quite happily. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87a9p81ucy....@windlord.stanford.edu
