On Sb, 28 iun 14, 21:42:47, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Andrei POPESCU dixit: > > >Yes, I know everything in Debian is a package, but APT *is* the master > >of all packages :p > > Wrong: > > • dpkg (directly or via dselect) does not use APT’s system > (well, not necessarily, anyway)
You're not seriously suggesting dpkg would "sneak" a package on your system behind your back, do you? > • aptitude has been known to ignore the view dpkg/apt have > on the system, e.g. wrt. held packages, for ages Which is why the conflicting package solution is suboptimal, but a pin works: # LANG=C aptitude install bad-package No candidate version found for bad-package No candidate version found for bad-package No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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