+++ Chow Loong Jin [2013-04-09 09:32 +0800]: > On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > > 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. > > Yeah, I have actually. It's just that the recent multiarch issues (which still > haven't been fixed) tend to lead to aptitude attempting to remove the whole > (foreign-arch) world.
I too am a huge aptitude fan. The curses UI is brilliant for working out what's up when things are a bit broken. However it doesn't deal with multiarch well so I've been stuck with apt-get trying to work out fro the tealeaves what's wrong. Is anyone actually working on making the aptitude multiarch-friendly, or planning to? Or has at least tthought about how hard a problem it is? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- 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/20130409112909.gg2...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk