Re: apt (intentionally?) brain dead?
Hi Michel
Hi All
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:24 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:15:24PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
[ .... ]
> >
> > Please: Read the message where I pasted apt's error messages *and* the
> > output of my manual intervention shortly after: If you do you can see
> > that there was no problem with the packages I was trying to
> > install. Instead it was a problem with apt not automatically being
> > able or "willing" to suggest a solution. I had to do it myself.
>
> As we've been telling you for days now, that's only because there's
> actually a problem with the packages you're trying to install. The only
> arguable problem with apt is that it doesn't seem to realize the problem
> itself with --simulate. This is not the right place to discuss that
> though.
>
> My words may have been too harsh,
Calling software brain dead as I did is much harsher, so please don't
worry ... :)
> but I'm not sure what else to say to someone who repeatedly refuses
> to follow suggestions that would allow him to see the actual problem
> for himself but instead makes ludicrous complaints based on
> incorrect assumptions.
>
>
Probably simply a misunderstanding, due to my very first message in
this thread perhaps where my question possibly was not precise enough:
I knew relatively well what was happening with apt as its output was
verbose (tho not very helpful as I expected, perhaps). What I wanted
to clarify here was whether the shown apt behavior was usual and
well-known behavior in these circumstances or whether someone thought
that there might be a bug with apt.
The reason behind it was simply that I didn't want to write a bug
report against a bug that actually is no bug, but usual and expected
apt behavior.
I'll try try to write more to the point next time ... :)
Nice weekend, Michel
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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