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Re: xorg in sid



On Thursday July 14 2005 12:44 am, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Marc Wilson:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:42:49PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > > Yes, i386.  aptitude here doesn't think so.  I'm trying to work
> > > around it.
> >
> > Yes, but we all know aptitude is crap, with ideas about
> > dependency resolution different from the known universe, so if
> > you're going to use it, don't mix it with any other package
> > management.
>
> Of course it's best to always use aptitude if one is going to use
> it at all, but I cannot think of situations where it might be
> dangerous to use plain dpkg/apt.

Well, aptitude does make it almost(?) impossible to --force the 
situation.

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