On 22 May 2009 17:14:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <886fa7aa0905220106n791648e1v6b79acecc06b3...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason > > Filippou wrote: > Aptitude assigns each possible resolution a score. A resolution's score is > the sum of the scores of all actions in the resolution. Each possible > action has a fixed, integral score. The defaults for these scores and the > configuration option to alter them are documented > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s05.htm >l and in the package(s) aptitude-doc-$lang. > > Those documents contain all the apt.conf settings that will affect > aptitude, the ones that affect action score are all of the form: > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::${Action}Score. > > When presenting the user with a solution, aptitude will show the one with > the highest score that the resolver has found so far. Solutions that are > found to have a score that is too low will be immediately rejected.
Well, in plain english: what's the better: a low number or a high number? Thierry
