Andre Majorel <aym-nai...@teaser.fr> wrote: > On 2016-09-28 10:46 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre writes:
>>> Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the >>> perl packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to >>> remove packages instead of holding the new packages (well, AFAIK, >>> aptitude has improved, but is still not perfect). >> Aptitude can't read your mind. When you tell it to install something >> it assumes that you mean what you say and proposes solutions to any >> conflicts based on various heuristics. > When there's some kind of conflict during a package installation or > upgrade, the first solutions proposed by aptitude almost invariably > involve large numbers of package removals. There is an option to tune the resolver. I have got the following in my /etc/apt/apt.conf: ,---- | // tweak Aptitude to not suggest removals as first option | Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost "removals"; `---- S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
