Bug#410695: zope2.7 causqe upgrade failure
Hi Daniel,
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:32:04AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > In all cases it seems unlikely to affect aptitude. If it is capable to
> > > handle dependencies for prerm's in the circular loop case, it is most
> > > probably capable to do the same in simpler cases like this one.
> > I don't know if it's true that aptitude does this, or if some other
> > difference between apt-get and aptitude means that aptitude tends to be
> > "luckier".
> While I'm not opposed to people having warm happy fuzzy feelings about
> aptitude, I know of no fundamental reason that it should be immune to
> this problem. The issue (as far as I understand it) is the way in which
> dpkg is invoked, which aptitude completely punts to apt.
Thanks for the input.
Do aptitude and apt pass the same number of packages to dpkg at a time?
Could that be a difference here? (That was the sort of difference I was
thinking of in terms of aptitude getting "lucky".)
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