On Wed, Jan 15, Michael Torrie wrote: > Aptitude reported that there were unmet dependencies, > which isn't surprising as there are some major gnome updates waiting to > be installed and GTK3 got bumped a revision. However rather than > resolving the dependencies and discovering that dependent packages > needed to be updated, the only solution aptitude could offer involved > removing nearly 100 packages including GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3! If I had > naively allowed aptitude to continue I'd be left with a completely > broken system. None of aptitude's other solutions involved anything > other than removing lots of packages either. > > When I went back to using apt-get, I was not surprised to see that it > resolved dependencies simply by upgrading a half dozen packages along > with the new package install and everything is happy.
I've been noticing the same thing. Lately, I've been switching to apt-get for everything but search and show. It always feels faster than aptitude install anyway, because the latter always feels the need to recompute the tree afterward. - Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
