Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages
On Wednesday 07 December 2016 14:55:40 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2016-10-13 00:09:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > > my position remains the same:
> > > > > aptitude is poorly designed.
> > > >
> > > > Fine. So don't use it. But moaning won't help anyone, not even you.
> > > > You don't like Aptitude. We get the message. So don't use Aptitude.
> > >
> > > And what do you propose instead?
> >
> > I don't use Sid, so haven't tested out which package managers are good
> > for it when there are problems, but how about looking at apt or apt-get?
> > Ben says that he has great success with apt-get. Apt-get is much less
> > aggressive than aptitude - but less fully featured.
> >
> > If I use aptitude with a large number of upgrades, I try to break it up.
> > At the very least I do
> > # aptitude update
> > #aptitude -s safe-upgrade
> > # aptitude safe-upgrade
> > # aptitude -s full-upgrade
> > # aptitude full-upgrade
>
> Sorry for the late reply, but all these may remove important packages,
> i.e. they have the same issues.
Don't let them - that is the point of the -s.
safe-upgrade is specifically not supposed to remove anything at all, important
or otherwise.
And have you looked into apt and apt-get?
Lisi
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