Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 Severity: normal When aptitude runs into a problem (packages conflict?) and needs to resolve it, it displays a bunch of suggestions; I've noted that they aren't sorted by score.
I think the scoring algorithm works reasonably well, so it would make a lot of
sense to try to display the best scored alternative first. If that's
infeasible (potentially there are many alternatives and they take a while to
compute), approximate it.
For instance, stick the first five suggestions in a maxheap; when the user
refuses the top one, add two and repeat. If you want extra brownie points,
compute the next two while waiting for user input; this decreases my wait time
and makes me a happy man ;)
Possibly a faster growing look-ahead buffer would be useful; you could either
use a bigger constant or go superlinear; say, n^{3/2} or n^{4/2}.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.2 compiled at Apr 12 2008 04:21:26
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)
Compiled against:
apt version 4.6.0
NCurses version 5.6
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.6.20080203
cwidget version: 0.5.11
Apt version: 4.6.0
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6.so.4.6
(0xb7ed6000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e9a000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7e93000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7da3000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7d2b000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb7bb8000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7ba3000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7b8b000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7a9d000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7a78000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7a6b000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb791e000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb791a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7915000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7fbb000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'stable'), (550, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.11 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.11-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.17 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.5-1 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.11.2-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
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Jonas Kölker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://jonaskoelker.ignorelist.com>
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