On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:57:16AM +0200, Sven Joachim <[email protected]> was heard to say: > On 2009-09-12 18:38 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > One thing I've noticed so far is that there seems to be some > > flakiness in the dependency solver, particularly that it seems to miss > > solutions that require removing packages (but only sometimes). I > > haven't had a chance to track this down yet. > > Maybe the libreadline-dev package gives a hint, aptitude needs some > suasion to install it:
That's correct: in response to a lot of complaints (e.g., #359171), the resolver has been redesigned to be more conservative about trying to remove packages. But the situation I ran into was one where it wasn't considering removals at all, even after I skipped past the first few solutions. Daniel _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
