Tom H wrote at 2013-10-12 18:40 -0500: > I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC.
I use aptitude, and find it to be *more* useful than apt because of its *interactive* dependency resolver. Probably if people have trouble with aptitude it is because the package selection scoring (which is configurable) is not quite perfect for all cases and they do not know about the interactive resolver (normally accessed with `e`) when a package is marked as "broken". The resolver allows the user to mark a particular suggestion of the resolver (eg. "remove gnome") as *rejected* (`r`). The resolver will never suggest that action again and will usually soon find an appropriate action, or that there is no possible action to satisfy both the user and dependencies. This feature of aptitude is somewhat more useful to me because I have some extra repositories enabled beside Debian stable (I also use pinning).
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