Hi. On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:33:45 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 21:32 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I experienced that synaptic for *buntu Saucy is broken, perhaps it's for > > Debian broken too. Sometimes nothing is inconsistent, but Synaptic > > claims that a dependency should be broken. After closing and opening > > Synaptic everything is ok. > > If apt-get does work, than a not buggy Synaptic must work too ;). apt, aptitude and synaptic handle package install conflicts differently. These tools do the same in trivial situations like installing or removing package from the main archive. But, put a number of packages with the same name and different versions (add versioned dependencies to the picture) - and these 3 tools start behaving differently. Add the fact that any package in backports archive has special version that is _lower_ that any version in main archive - and sometimes these tools may produce funny results. Basically, apt provides you with the most dumb solution possible (works most of the time) - install what you want, upgrade dependencies. Aptitude gives you multiple ways of installing package (and one has to choose carefully) - install what you want, upgrade/downgrade dependencies (and may remove something just for fun :). Synaptic assumes that you are not lazy, and will use Ctrl+E (IIRC, may be wrong) to force particular versions for needed packages. So, it's possible to use Synaptic for the task, it just will violate the great IBM principle - 'People should think, machine should work'. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131213010245.46f9feb53fc50bafd5390...@gmail.com
