On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:42:40AM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:54:16AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > term. I would also love to find a way in the future to interface with > > > the aptitude dependency problem resolver (that is superiour to the one > > > in libapt). > > > > In what way is it superior? Until now, apt-get always found a solution to > > all the dist-upgrade that I gave him whereas aptitude sometimes didn't. > > Raphael, > > When you encounter situations where aptitude can't find a solution, > could you please send them to me? aptitude's resolver is designed to be > complete, so if it misses valid solutions it's a bug.
I've been reminded of an exception to this. aptitude throws out the solution of "revert all the proposed changes and stay at the current state". Setting Aptitude::Discard-Null-Solution to false will disable this behavior. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]