Re: package management begins to annoy me
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:39:49AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> was heard to say:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager
> > > since Etch was released. It has better dependency resolution, is more
> > > user-friendly, and is a bit more tunable.
> >
> > "Better" dependency resolution is subjective. While it's certainly
> > cleverer and more complex, aptitude often fails to do the right thing
> > where the simpler algorithm apt-get uses behaves correctly.
>
> Concrete cases please. Preferably in the form of a bug report.
There are a couple bug reports open on various problems, e.g. that
people don't like it when aptitude is too aggressive about removing
packages. I'm actually working right now on some enhancements to the
resolver, aimed at making its results more *predictable* (distinct
from "better"; I think that predictability is probably better for users
than some hard-to-pin-down notion of quality).
Daniel
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