On Tuesday 27 April 2010 08:48:48 Daniel Burrows wrote: > aptitude's resolver will *still* upgrade held packages Oh noes! > A temporary solution for you is to cancel the auto flag on any > package you hold. Simple enough. > Long-term solutions in the code could include postponing dependency > resolution until after the resolver finishes (which could have > wide-ranging implications), refusing to remove unused held packages, and > somehow "remembering" the held flag on packages that were removed > because they were unused. > > Of these three solutions, I prefer the second one, refusing to remove > unused held packages. It fits in with the intuitive meaning of "hold", > it's easy to implement, and it doesn't have a high risk of surprising > side-effects, since it only affects a fairly precisely defined set of > packages. As a user, I also prefer that approach, for all the reasons you mention. > Essentially, it causes held packages to be added to the root > set (and that's the best implementation, I think: modify aptitude's > custom root set function to include held packages). You lost me, but I haven't delved into the aptitude source code. My approach would have been just making the 'hold' action also clear the 'automatically installed' flag; essentially "institutionalizing" the temporary solution. But, I defer to your solution as it sounds more flexible. $(reportbug -k aptitude) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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