On 29 February 2012 16:36, Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version: 0.6.5-1 > Severity: minor > > On a long-not-updated system where installation requires a Perl update: > > $ aptitude install smurf-kde > ## my metapackage which simply depends on a bunch of KDE stuff > [ attempt to resolve the non-existing conflict which includes: ] > 206) smurf-kde [Not Installed] > > Uhh, what? When I explicitly want to install something, attempts to resolve > the problem by not-installing that very package are stupid. Please pre-add > these to the exclusion list, particularly if only one package is mentioned > on the command line. > > Also, I'm astonished that attempts to not-install 200 packages get higher > priority than updating ten packages. > > … > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), > (550, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)
Hello Does smurf-kde pull in anything from unstable or experimental? Regards _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

