lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> writes: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:58:21PM -0500, green wrote: >> lee wrote at 2009-06-23 14:13 -0500: >> > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp >> > in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a >> > dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. >> >> One thing that has helped me with aptitude is actually using the dependency >> resolver correctly, so just a tip: >> >> Initially I was not aware of the accept and reject options given by the >> resolver, so when something was broken, I just kept pressing '.' to run >> through >> lots of options. Keys 'a' and 'r' can be used to accept/reject individual >> package state changes, and the resolver will consider that when calculating >> the >> next option. > > Well, I tried that once, but there didn't seem to be any option > available that would solve the problem. And when I go back and tell > aptitude through the "normal" package selection that it should > remove/purge a package, I expect aptitude to do just that. Instead, it > makes other changes and keeps insisting on them and on insisting on > doing what it wants. That is very much unacceptable --- if aptitude > thinks it knows better than me what I want, it should work all by > itself without any intervention needed and do exactly what I want. If > it can't do that, it will just have to do what I tell it to do. If it > doesn't do that, aptitude just sucks and needs to be improved or > replaced. It's that simple. > > Maybe I should go back to dselect. I always liked dselect way better ...
I understand your frustration, but dselect has always been notoriously bad at this sort of stuff as well. I don't know what the current state of testing is, but it's quite possible that it's simply in an unresolvable state right now and there's little aptitude can do about it. -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
