Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict
> > > resolution completely obvious, but the information is there.
> >
> > Aptitude shouldn't be used until its fundamental breakages are resolved.
It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it.
Its behavior regarding dependency resolution is different depending on
whether you're using it from the command line or the ncurses interface.
It's claimed that aptitude is a drop-in replacement for apt-get, except
that aptitude by default installs Recommends/Suggests, while apt-get only
tells you about them.
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