On 9 April 2013 19:25, Jeremy Bicha <jer...@bicha.net> wrote: > On 9 April 2013 13:13, J Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just from my own humble experience, there have been numerous times when > > aptitude has been able to resolve a package situation that apt-get would > > simply refuse to entertain; apt-get would just say it couldn't do > anything > > and exit. While on the one hand this behaviour prevents me from breaking > the > > system, if the system does get into a state where further package > > installation is impossible then I can't get out of it. If aptitude wasn't > > already installed at that point I wouldn't be able to install it unless I > > remove the broken package - and as we all know this can result in a lot > of > > other dependencies being uninstalled. I can see the goal of preventing > the > > system from getting into such a state (e.g. by focussing on installation > > only from the Software Centre), but if I download Skype or Steam from > their > > respective websites, and follow their installation instructions, it's > easy > > to imagine such a situation occurring. > > How recently have you had these dependency problems? You don't have > raring-proposed enabled, do you? (The -proposed repositories for > Ubuntu series' that haven't been released is strongly not recommended > for people to use because of temporary dependency problems and other > issues.) You shouldn't be having dependency problems with the regular > Ubuntu archives and I believe it's a priority bug if you find an issue > like that. > > Jeremy >
Fairly recently, but I'm probably not a typical Ubuntu user any more. I run U+1 as a "rolling" release from a minimal CLI base (mini.iso), so my dependency problems could be caused by -proposed, PPAs (Rico's GNOME3 testing, for example), and third-party packages (e.g. AMDs fglrx). If it was happening in an LTS or normal release I'd be reporting bugs, but for a couple of years I haven't been able to do that without fear of reporting something spurious. J
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