On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > my position remains the same: > > > aptitude is poorly designed. > > > > Fine. So don't use it. But moaning won't help anyone, not even you. > > You don't like Aptitude. We get the message. So don't use Aptitude. > > And what do you propose instead?
I don't use Sid, so haven't tested out which package managers are good for it when there are problems, but how about looking at apt or apt-get? Ben says that he has great success with apt-get. Apt-get is much less aggressive than aptitude - but less fully featured. If I use aptitude with a large number of upgrades, I try to break it up. At the very least I do # aptitude update #aptitude -s safe-upgrade # aptitude safe-upgrade # aptitude -s full-upgrade # aptitude full-upgrade Thus giving me a chance to sort out problems before I wreck my system! Then nothing gets removed if I don't want it to be. And there are tricks like: http://serverfault.com/questions/696241/mark-packages-to-be-installed-and-run-aptitude-in-interactive-mode If you ask what people find good for that particular problem, I am sure you will get a lot of helpful replies. Lisi
