On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the dependencies >> satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), aptitude allows you >> to interactively pick other solutions, or tell it what to do: > > Have you been able to get that effect from aptitude? It seems that > whenever it sees some trouble (sometimes even when plain apt-get would > succeed), it proposes to remove the world, install a few unrelated > packages, and not do whatever you requested it to. After declining a > varying number of such "solutions", it gives up even if it would take a > single action to resolve the problem. Yeah, I have actually. It's just that the recent multiarch issues (which still haven't been fixed) tend to lead to aptitude attempting to remove the whole (foreign-arch) world. If none of the other decisions make sense, you're actually able to prod aptitude in the right direction by supplying some extra operations interactively at the [Y|n|q] prompt. > I'm not sure if it makes sense to recommend aptitude in its present state. I wouldn't recommend it when operating with multiarch enabled. Otherwise it's mostly fine. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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