Re: emacs sarge surprise!
On 2008-04-23 11:53 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of
> sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The
> aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation
> where bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has
> aptitude as a dependency and cannot install without aptitude being
> preinstalled and happy.
Very strange. Given that most users still prefer apt-get over aptitude
for installing packages, I don't see how this could be true.
> If that problem never did get remedied
> (aptitude required to install emacs) then there's no point in my
> taking any of this any further. For one thing aptitude ought to be a
> pre-dependency of emacs and apt-get didn't know about that and let me
> know either.
If aptitude is really required to install emacs21 (which I doubt), then
that's a bug, period. Note that (according to popcon stats) aptitude is
only installed on 98% of all systems, and a few of the remaining might
have emacs21 installed. You can also be assured that I installed
emacs21 on woody long before aptitude.
Sven
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