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--- Begin Message ---Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.13-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, Initially aptitude wants to remove the "gnome" package. Trying to work out why is complex process that IMHO could be made easier. If mark the gnome package for installation, suddenly 10 other packages break. This is strange, because the gnome package is marked not broken. I go to one of these packages, eg. gnome-desktop, which is marked as purged and broken. I mark it as removed, and the gnome package breaks. This is confusing, because when I last viewed the "gnome" package, it listed the dependancies like: --\ Depends --- gnome-desktop (= 37) --- gnome-office (= 37) --- evolution | balsa --- bluefish --- netspeed --- rhythmbox --- synaptic | gnome-apt --- xscreensaver This does not make it clear that the dependancies cannot be satisfied, I have expand each item in turn to realize this: --\ Depends --\ gnome-desktop (= 37) pBA 37 --- gnome-office (= 37) --- evolution | balsa --- bluefish --- netspeed --- rhythmbox --- synaptic | gnome-apt --- xscreensaver It would have been better, IMHO if it could display it as: --\ Depends --- gnome-desktop (= 37) (BROKEN) --- gnome-office (= 37) --- evolution | balsa --- bluefish --- netspeed --- rhythmbox --- synaptic | gnome-apt --- xscreensaver Also, since one of the dependacies for gnome is broken, that should make gnome broken too, right? Alternatively maybe another state would be better, eg. depends on broken package. This would help in the case where I want to install package XYZ that depends on gnome. Currently all the dependancies in the XYZ view would look OK, even though gnome is broken because gnome-desktop is broken because its dependancies are not in the archive. I gather what happened here is that the new version of gnome requires gnome-desktop to get installed, but gnome-desktop is not installable because one of its dependancies, gnome-media cannot be satisfied. Anyway, I hope you can make some sense of this bug report in order to make aptitude a better program. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux imac 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5 0.5.14 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-3 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Sorry for the noise, the address of the bug got deleted because it was invalid (an extra ">" or something) 2016-04-02 1:45 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > 2003-11-09 23:35 Brian May: >> >> Package: aptitude >> Version: 0.2.13-2 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Hello, >> >> Initially aptitude wants to remove the "gnome" package. Trying to work >> out why >> is complex process that IMHO could be made easier. >> >> If mark the gnome package for installation, suddenly 10 other packages >> break. >> This is strange, because the gnome package is marked not broken. >> >> I go to one of these packages, eg. gnome-desktop, which is marked as >> purged and >> broken. I mark it as removed, and the gnome package breaks. This is >> confusing, >> because when I last viewed the "gnome" package, it listed the dependancies >> like: >> >> --\ Depends >> --- gnome-desktop (= 37) >> --- gnome-office (= 37) >> --- evolution | balsa >> --- bluefish >> --- netspeed >> --- rhythmbox >> --- synaptic | gnome-apt >> --- xscreensaver >> >> This does not make it clear that the dependancies cannot be satisfied, >> I have expand each item in turn to realize this: >> >> --\ Depends >> --\ gnome-desktop (= 37) >> pBA 37 >> --- gnome-office (= 37) >> --- evolution | balsa >> --- bluefish >> --- netspeed >> --- rhythmbox >> --- synaptic | gnome-apt >> --- xscreensaver >> >> It would have been better, IMHO if it could display it as: >> >> --\ Depends >> --- gnome-desktop (= 37) (BROKEN) >> --- gnome-office (= 37) >> --- evolution | balsa >> --- bluefish >> --- netspeed >> --- rhythmbox >> --- synaptic | gnome-apt >> --- xscreensaver > > > I marked "gnome" for installation (not installed on my system), then > marked to purged "gnome-games" before installing, so "gnome" becomes > broken. For many years, broken depends in the pkg info screen show like > this: > > --- gnome-games (>= 1:3.14) (UNSATISFIED) > > (and in red colour) > > >> Also, since one of the dependacies for gnome is broken, that should make >> gnome >> broken too, right? > > > "gnome" is now marked as broken when this dep is broken. > > >> Alternatively maybe another state would be better, eg. depends on broken >> package. >> >> This would help in the case where I want to install package XYZ that >> depends on >> gnome. Currently all the dependancies in the XYZ view would look OK, even >> though gnome is broken because gnome-desktop is broken because its >> dependancies >> are not in the archive. >> >> I gather what happened here is that the new version of gnome requires >> gnome-desktop to get installed, but gnome-desktop is not installable >> because >> one of its dependancies, gnome-media cannot be satisfied. >> >> Anyway, I hope you can make some sense of this bug report in order >> to make aptitude a better program. > > > I think that the originally developer did, and so for many years this > works much better than when this bug was submitted and similar to what > it's described, so I guess that it's fair to close this request at this > point :) -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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