Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:57PM +0100, Mikael Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > tis 2005-12-06 klockan 10:12 -0800 skrev Daniel Burrows: > > not terribly interested in adding more ways to throw away solutions > > entirely, > > as the more complicated you make those schemes, the m

Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-06 Thread Mikael Nilsson
tis 2005-12-06 klockan 10:47 -0800 skrev Daniel Burrows: > The option is actually Aptitude::ProblemResolver::PreserveManualScore; > no hyphen. This is contrary to the documentation, which I've now fixed. > The reason that this is not a very strong imperative is that it forces > the program to tr

Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
The option is actually Aptitude::ProblemResolver::PreserveManualScore; no hyphen. This is contrary to the documentation, which I've now fixed. The reason that this is not a very strong imperative is that it forces the program to try *very hard* to preserve the states of manual packages. This in

Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-06 Thread Mikael Nilsson
tis 2005-12-06 klockan 10:12 -0800 skrev Daniel Burrows: > > Is there an apt.conf option that increases the penalty for those options? > > Maybe the default value of that penalty should be considerably increased. > > The option in question is Aptitude::ProblemResolver::PreserveManualScore; > I

Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:26:54PM +0100, Mikael Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.4.0-3 > Severity: normal > > > I'm generally quite happy with the new problem resolver in aptitude, but in > a few cases I find it less that useful. > > Case in point:

Bug#341963: aptitude: Too low penalty for not honoring user request

2005-12-04 Thread Mikael Nilsson
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.0-3 Severity: normal I'm generally quite happy with the new problem resolver in aptitude, but in a few cases I find it less that useful. Case in point: I was trying to install evolution from experimental. aptitude is your friend here, because this is a complex tran