Bug#401835: aptitude: installed packages depend on order of commandline

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
This is a fairly fundamental consequence of how apt's dependency resolution works. Fixing it would require rewriting the code that does recursive resolution in apt, or replacing it with an aptitude-specific version. This is an interesting problem to solve, so I'll leave it open, but I'm

Bug#401835: aptitude: installed packages depend on order of commandline

2006-12-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Mittwoch, den 06.12.2006, 08:18 -0500 schrieb Thomas Dickey: But gnome-terminal in turn depends on libraries which are not part of xorg, so it would be unsuitable as a dependency. Yes, sure. Sorry, I think my bug report was misleading. Of course aptitude should not install any random

Bug#401835: aptitude: installed packages depend on order of commandline

2006-12-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
package: aptitude version: 0.4.3-1 severity: minor Hello! It has caught my eye that the packages which are automatically installed by aptitude depend on the order in which the package names are entered at the command line. I want to install both 'xorg' and 'gnome-desktop-environment' packages

Bug#401835: aptitude: installed packages depend on order of commandline

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: package: aptitude version: 0.4.3-1 severity: minor Hello! It has caught my eye that the packages which are automatically installed by aptitude depend on the order in which the package names are entered at the command