Re: aptitude's removal of packages when upgrading
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:02PM -0500, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Before hitting 'g', I ran down the list of aptitude's
> planned actions and lo and behold, aptitude was planning to remove
> apt-listbugs, since libgettext-ruby1.8 was to be upgraded to a version
> which conflicts with apt-listbugs.
>
> I had always assumed that such things would show up in the original
> resolver solutions, that it would warn me that the upgrade was
> incompatible with some package that I wanted installed.
Probably the first-pass greedy resolver removed apt-listbugs when
libgettext-ruby1.8 was installed. Which reminds me, I can submit that
patch to apt now to make it so that I can block the first-pass resolver
from removing packages and doing other undesirable things (it was
blocked by the lenny freeze).
Daniel
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