Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> 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.
That's not really a problem, other than #137771, which I assume will be
fixed some day.
> Its behavior regarding dependency resolution is different depending on
> whether you're using it from the command line or the ncurses interface.
Bug number? I've never seen this myself, and don't really care anyway
since I do any dependency resolution in the ncurses interface.
> It's claimed that aptitude is a drop-in replacement for apt-get, except
Claimed by whom?
> that aptitude by default installs Recommends/Suggests, while apt-get only
> tells you about them.
By default it installs recommends but not suggests, which is pretty sane
to me.
I guess all of your problems with aptitude have to do with the
command-line interface. It seems rather foolish to complain about that
though, since if your using it you're missing out on pretty much all
of the power and usefulness of aptitude.
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