On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Jiri Palecek wrote: > >>How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it > >>prefer to do something that won't break other packages? Or should > >>it ask the user for help? > > >As for your problem, you must provide way more information than just "it > >does > >not work" in order to get help. There are at least five different versions > >of > >aptitude you could be using on whatever version of Debian you use. Most of > >us > >cannot read minds, especially over the Internet. > > If you had read (at least the written protion of) my mind more carefully, > you would realize that I have never said "it does not work". I thought it > more as a feature request (or idea) than bug report. I was asking about > how is aptitude supposed to solve such situations, beacuse it isn't clear > if it really should try to guess the correct packages to install.
The aptitude in unstable and testing has a feature that lists suggested ways to fix broken packages. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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