Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you're willing to wait an hour, it might be able to come up >> with a list of ways you could resolve a conflict, but basically >> all of them will be wrong, eg suggestion #1, uninstall everything. > > Really, this is a flippant response to a serious issue,
No. It is how facts are. Actually, making suggestions is an NP-complete problem which means that if already, say, 20 possible choices have influence to the solution (and cannot be trivially cut), it would take hundreds of years to complete. If you come up with an algorithm which can do essentially better, you have probably solved the P=NP millenium problem and can expect an incredible award. You can be very lucky if you get *one* suggestion (which is what portage sometimes finds with high value of --backtrack). Checking whether the suggestion is reasonable is the user's task.
