On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:15:02PM +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > This specific problem of this bug report about upgrading to experimental > might be different because the solutions using "non-default releases" > are placed in another level/tier, but the score that you were using is > only relevant within the same tier /nowadays/ (I don't know back then), > so no matter how much one changes the Source-Strictness it will not > cross the boundaries.
Ah, so tiers trump scoring? I wasn't aware of that. And I don't think the UI makes that clear in any reasonable way either. > For complex and infrequent solutions, rejecting some actions of the > first suggestions with 'r' in the solution screens/questions (both in > curses and in command line) would probably be enough to guide very > quickly towards a solution, in the absence of big problems like > transitions that make your request impossible to fulfill.. I don't think I've ever used 'r'; I've just used 'n'. I wasn't aware that you could do much more than just ask for the next solution. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
