Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-18 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.01.17.1124 +0100]: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > Debian's nice in terms of dependency handling, but this really > > only applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the fact > > that a lot of users run a

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:34:07PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Debian's nice in terms of dependency handling, but this really only > applies to stable. I wonder why we don't accept the fact that a lot > of users run a total mixture, like a stable base, with packages from > testing and unstable

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.01.05.0330 +0100]: > The testing/unstable version of aptitude supports 'aptitude -t testing > install ...'. Thanks, this is good to know. I still wonder why aptitude can't fulfill the dependencies. If I have myapp=1.0 in stable and myapp=2.0 in

Re: proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-04 Thread Travis Crump
martin f krafft wrote: I can kinda understand why aptitude doesn't do it, and why `apt-get install -t testing` is the only way to achieve the goal. However, then again I don't. The above output from aptitude is plain wrong and all the information necessary to fulfill the dependencies are there. So

proper use of aptitude in stable/unstable mixed systems

2004-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
Dear all, I have been using aptitude for a while now and prefer it greatly to dselect when it comes to making custom changes to the installation base of my various systems. All these systems run a mixture of stable/testing/unstable, and I use pinning to set the default to either stable or testing.