Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:57:22AM +0900, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you say that normal operation is getting slower, do you mean just the load time or its overall performance? The time required to load in all the state

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:41:25AM +0900, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [0] alert readers will note that the caveat if the user waits for a sufficient amount of time has to be added here; however, this is typically much less than

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-15 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you say that normal operation is getting slower, do you mean just the load time or its overall performance? The time required to load in all the state files is a bit long, but once they're loaded the program seems to run reasonably quickly to me.

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] Though I love the aptitude interface and functionality, I've noticed that on my home machine (not so fast, but not too bad with average software), normal aptitude operation has been getting more and more slothlike in recent times, to the point where I

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [0] alert readers will note that the caveat if the user waits for a sufficient amount of time has to be added here; however, this is typically much less than one second per solution on my hardware. Er, what _is_ your hardware anyway? Though I love

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The aptitude in unstable and testing has a feature that lists suggested ways to fix broken packages. Unfortunately, the feature doesn't work very well. Frequently I say aptitude remove XXX and the first several suggestions that aptitude comes up with is

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jiri Palecek wrote: How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it prefer to do something that won't break

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-06 Thread Jiří Paleček
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jiri Palecek wrote: How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it prefer to do something that won't break other packages? Or should it ask the user for help? As for your problem, you must provide way

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-06 Thread James Vega
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:51:55AM +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 19:50:14 +0100, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jiri Palecek wrote: How does aptitude decide which one to choose? Shouldn't it prefer to do something that won't break other packages? Or should it ask

Aptitude question

2006-01-04 Thread Jiri Palecek
Hello, I have a question on how aptitude decides which packages to install to satisfy dependencies. I was installing vtk yesterday and it depends on xlibmesa-gl | libgl1. Aptitude chose to install xlibmesa-gl which in turn broke my x-window-system-core metapackage. However, I was able to manually

Re: Aptitude question

2006-01-04 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Jiri Palecek wrote: Hello, I have a question on how aptitude decides which packages to install to satisfy dependencies. I was installing vtk yesterday and it depends on xlibmesa-gl | libgl1. Aptitude chose to install xlibmesa-gl which in turn broke my x-window-system-core metapackage. However,

Aptitude question

2006-01-04 Thread Jiri Palecek
Hello, I have a question on how aptitude decides which packages to install to satisfy dependencies. I was installing vtk yesterday and it depends on xlibmesa-gl | libgl1. Aptitude chose to install xlibmesa-gl which in turn broke my x-window-system-core metapackage. However, I was able to manually