Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: normal Hello,
I had a machine with almost a minimal set of packages installed, one of those packages was exim4 which had been installed automatically because of dependencies of another package. Then, I used "dpkg --set-selections < packagelist" to set a very large package selection list (about 1400 packages). Then, I called "aptitude -y -f install" to really install the packages. Most of the packages could be installed successfully, but some remained in state "install ok uninstalled" because of a strange conflict resolution. The core problem was that the big package list contained ssmtp, which has a conflict with the previously installed exim4. So, aptitude tried to solve the conflict: The following packages are BROKEN: exim4-config exim4-daemon-light ssmtp 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 44.0kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: exim4-config: Conflicts: ssmtp but 2.61-11.1 is to be installed. exim4-daemon-light: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package. ssmtp: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light Keep the following packages at their current version: gnome-desktop-environment [ not installed ] kdewebdev [ not installed ] lyx-common [ not installed ] ibritish [ not installed ] quanta-data [ not installed ] quanta [ not installed ] free-java-sdk [ not installed ] sablevm [ not installed ] gnome [ not installed ] lyx [ not installed ] kde [ not installed ] policycoreutils [ not installed ] lyx-qt [ not installed ] I think that the conflict between exim4 and ssmtp should not have an effect on the packages mentioned below "Keep the following packages at their current version:". Regards Christoph Pleger -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-686-irb Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]