On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:43:38PM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 01:12:47AM +0000, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Aptitude does an OK job in this respect. It doesn't make conflict > > > resolution completely obvious, but the information is there. > > > > Aptitude shouldn't be used until its fundamental breakages are resolved.
It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it. Its behavior regarding dependency resolution is different depending on whether you're using it from the command line or the ncurses interface. It's claimed that aptitude is a drop-in replacement for apt-get, except that aptitude by default installs Recommends/Suggests, while apt-get only tells you about them. -- Marc Wilson | An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. -- Karl Kraus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
