Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:56:21 -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
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> On 09/21/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:43:28 -0500, Ron Johnson
>> <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
>>
>>> On 09/21/07 10:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 09/21/07 00:43, Miles Bader wrote:
>>>>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>>>>>>> The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people
>>>>>>> don't trust aptitude.
>>>>>> Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though.
>>>>> Vague rumors to you, first-hand experience to me.
>>>> I know you, and many others, have had trouble with aptitude, but I
>>>> feel its important to point out that aptitude does what one tells
>>>> it too. Now, one may be unintentionally telling it to do something
>>>> one doesn't want, but that is another issue.
>>
>>> "# aptitude upgrade" doesn't mean "remove GNOME, perl and everything
>>> they depend on".
>>
>> And that has not happened to me. Seems like if that is hte best
>> solution aptitude came up with for you, the package state on that
>> machine was strange; and that would mean surely things will rise up
>> and bite you at some later point.
> But at the same time, "#apt-get upgrade" worked perfectly.
I am not so sure it worked perfectly. It allowed you machine to
stay in an inconsistent state, while aptitude tried to fix it. Do this
long enough, then th recovery becomes painful.
>> If ever aptitude (and not, thankfully, apt, in Sid) try and delete
>> hug swaths of stuff, it would well behoove you to find out why --
>> usually, it is a Sid issue, and goes away after new processing, or
>> the next upload, or something.
> Like I said, apt-get never wanted to remove packages. Sometimes it
> would hold back *lots* of packages, but never remove them.
aptitude offers tonnes of solutions to cycle through, and you
can often unjam things by aptitude instal'ing one or few packages.
manoj
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