Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?
On 2017-03-21 16:55:36 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:
> > By default, the apt preferences are such that unstable is preferred
> > over experimental. But as explained in
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795228
> >
> > this is not the case with aptitude's resolver:
> >
> > | With the SolutionCost of "removals", aptitude doesn't take into account
> > | installing by priorities or non-default releases, it just tries to
> > | minimise the removals, so seing that it could solve the problem by
> > | upgrading to 2.7-1~exp1, it just did that.
>
> That appears (from my experience and reading for a few minutes, at any
> rate) to only come into play when there are conflicts to be resolved.
Not just conflicts, but also unfulfilled Depends and Recommends
(since 0.8-1 for Recommends, as a fix of #819636). This happens
even more when one has packages on hold.
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