Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages
On 2016-09-30 14:32:49 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> For goodness sake!!! This is Debian. Open Source. Choice. Your call.
> Either rewrite Aptitude and publish a fork; use it; or don't use it. I like
> it. Many like it. No-one is making you use it. Use your package manager of
> choice, or no package manager and manage your own dependency hell. But do
> stop complaining and moaning.
I had looked at the source of the resolver code to see if I could do
something, but it was too horrible to read. So, unless someone points
at good documentation on how the resolver works and/or explain what
happened in the bug 823928 I reported, my position remains the same:
aptitude is poorly designed.
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