I know this isn't a referendum, I just found these two cents in my pocket. Shahar wrote: > It's resolver is not so hot but to say that it "does not work" is a bit > misleading!
For what little it's worth, it looks that way to me, too. I can only see that aptitude 'works' on a level it had not since multiarch began. I have used aptitude for the great majority of its existence, about ten years. Comparing the present Ubuntu package to those experiences: - I don't recall a time when the resolver worked much better for me, than 0.6.6 does. I don't want to paper over the weaknesses of the resolver, at all. I can't see that, with the recent multiarch patch, they've regressed a lot from the time before multiarch. I don't have test cases to offer, and anyone who does may trump my personal experience. - Aptitude under multiarch was very broken for me; not really usable, until the recent 0.6.6. - I now use it as I did in the past. It seems restored to the previous level of functionality, for me, and I keep thinking "this is great, I have aptitude back!" So perhaps someone will have a good wording to describe the situation accurately. Acknowledge whatever clear regressions still exist, since pre-multiarch. And convey that aptitude, in 12.04, works much, much more than it did in the last few releases. If I had not been following Precise all along, that is the information I would want to know. I don't have a comprehensive picture of everyone's experience, of course. This is just my attempt to contribute to it, and I have no great complaint with the situation as it is. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/831768 Title: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptitude/+bug/831768/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
