On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > I stopped using aptitude for routine upgrades a while back. My experience > with aptitude is that the first solution is almost always wrong, and the > second solution is sometimes better than the first solution that apt comes > up with. That means it's a bad choice for day-to-day use, since you'll > have to constantly fight with the first suggestion.
This config option improves the aptitude resolver for some situations: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99aptitude-resolver: Aptitude::ProblemResolver { SolutionCost "removals"; } It won't help for incomplete transitions like the GCC5 one though. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise