lee wrote at 2009-06-23 17:47 -0500: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: > > Initially I was not aware of the accept and reject options given by the > > resolver, so when something was broken, I just kept pressing '.' to run through > > lots of options. Keys 'a' and 'r' can be used to accept/reject individual > > package state changes, and the resolver will consider that when calculating the > > next option. > > Well, I tried that once, but there didn't seem to be any option > available that would solve the problem. And when I go back and tell > aptitude through the "normal" package selection that it should > remove/purge a package, I expect aptitude to do just that. If you reject something that you don't want aptitude to do and then there is no option that satisfies you (and aptitude claims that there are no more options available), then blame probably goes elsewhere (packages versions/dependencies)... perhaps you should use lenny/stable instead. Note that there are lots of configuration options for aptitude's resolver, like Aptitude::ProblemResolver::PreserveManualScore, which adds a score to explicit user selections.
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