On Du, 20 iul 14, 08:13:30, The Wanderer wrote: > > What I was aiming at with the version-number wildcard is to let a single > pinning stanza work repeatedly, for different fglrx-driver versions, > without need for manual intervention.
Right. I just thought of an entirely different approach: use equivs to create a meta-package with something like: Package: my-dont-ever-remove-packages Depends: fglrx-driver, etc. Priority: required or if that doesn't work replace the Priority with Essential: yes > > // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option > > Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; > > I use apt-get, not aptitude, and I don't know whether it has a similar > option. I've never seen a comprehensive-seeming, but still readable, > listing of these apt-related config options. > > (However, one of the most major reasons I don't use aptitude is because > of its penchant for suggesting removals - including, often, of the very > package(s) I requested to install/upgrade - as its first priority. It's > not impossible that this configuration tweak might mitigate that problem > to some considerable extent.) That's what I use it for (the tweak that is) ;) 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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