On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:55:59AM +0200, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > #include <hallo.h> > * Russ Allbery [Wed, Jun 06 2007, 08:40:47PM]: > > > > Is this the same dependency resolver that tries to remove half your > > > packages as a result of the most minor package removal? > > > > No, that's not done by the dependency resolver. That's done by the code > > that removes packages that you never told it should be installed. > > > > This problem goes away completely if you only use aptitude-aware tools to > > install packages. It's basically a transition issue. (I do agree that > > the transition could be improved.) > > <bitching> > Why do you think that aptitude is perfect? I can remember a not so nice > evening few months ago when aptitude (on Ubuntu) tried to remove half of > the distro when installing simple packages. The reason was the forgotton > source line for the previous release in sources.list - but still, it > should cope with that and not wreak random havoc. > </bitching>
Why did it want to remove your packages? I can't think of any reason that missing the previous release should have caused problems -- unless maybe there were broken dependencies that needed the previous release in order to be resolved? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
