Re: aptitude removals (was Re: APT 0.7 for sid)
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Bug #299009 is AFAIK about the fact that aptitude produces different
> dependency resolutions from the visual UI versus the command-line. This
> is because the command-line has more context about what the user is
> doing and tweaks the resolver accordingly.
Would you elaborate on that, please? I don't get why the command line has
more context. In your response to that bug report you said:
> At the command-line, aptitude knows that its job
> is to perform a certain set of actions and preferably as few others as
> possible (for instance, "aptitude install X Y Z" should install packages
> X, Y, and Z).
<snip>
> In visual mode, in contrast, the interaction between the user and the
> program is a lot more open-ended, and it's a lot trickier to figure out
> exactly what the user wants (in fact, I'm not sure it's even possible in
> principle).
I fail to see the difference between "aptitude install X Y Z" and going into
the visual mode and then marking X Y Z for installation. Where is the extra
information?
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Felipe Sateler
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