[Frans Pop] > Not really as these issues generally only occur when packages are > being *upgraded* using 'aptitude install <package>', not when they > are being newly installed.
Sure, they might not happen a lot, but they also happen from within debian-installer. With Debian Edu/Squeeze, I recently noticed one example, where jackd fail to install using aptitude, but install just fine with apt-get, because the latter seem to do a better job at finding a installable set based on the packages tasksel want to install. :) > For tasksel that would destroy the option to review which packages > get installed, which is an important option when tasksel is invoked > manually (I've used it for example to determine task sizes for the > Installation Guide). How come? I would expect the method described in <URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Calling_tasksel_like_the_installer__while_still_getting_useful_output.html > would work with both apt-get and aptitude. > I suspect you are wrong. apt-install does not use aptitude, but > pkgsel does. OK. I trust you to know this better than me, but it is a bit besides my point, which is that it is fairly small change to replace aptitude with apt-get in d-i. I would believe it would be better for d-i to use the same tool in the installer, for predictability and consistency, as well as to keep the dependencies down. Sure, it will give change the behaviour of d-i, but that is also the point, if the aptitude behaviour is worse than that of apt-get. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen Pretending d-i developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2fl4ofg250d....@login2.uio.no