Re: aptitude has Priority: standard, why?

[Wookey <wookey@wookware.org>]

+++ The Wanderer [2015-03-31 11:36 -0400]:
> On 03/31/2015 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> > On 31 March 2015 at 17:00, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>
> > wrote:
> >> Thus, I believe there are a couple of knobs to turn to make
> >> aptitude behave more expectedly.
> > 
> > Here is it:
> > 
> > $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00dontbeanidiot
> > Aptitude::ProblemResolver {
> >     SolutionCost "priority, removals, canceled-actions";
> > }
> 
> I'm aware of that snippet, and I have it in place, as of that thread
> (which I think was on debian-user, actually).
> 
> I've done only very limited testing with it, but what testing I've done
> seems to indicate that the problem behavior is still present. I'm not
> going to say that it has _no_ effect, but it doesn't seem to have been
> sufficient to fix the problem.
> 
> Regardless, even if this _is_ fully effective, that is what I was
> referring to with the snipped comment that if there is a way to
> configure aptitude so it behaves sanely in this regard, then that
> configuration should be the default.

This may well be a good idea. If we are changing the defaults can we
_please_ have the suite displayed by default too (7-year old wishlist
bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484011). I've
been changing this setting for a decade now on every box and it's dull.

Personally I think aptitude is great - and I use the curses interface
as my standard upgrading tool and diagnostic tool. I love how easy it
is to wander round when there is an issue and work out exactly why
something is 'broken', or whatever. I've had very little trouble with
the resolver, and I like the way it continues to offer you choices,
unlike apt which just gives you one.

But I don't much care whether it is 'standard' or not - it's easy
enough to install.

(this thread has been educational) - I had forgotten that there was an
'apt'.

Wookey
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