2016-03-09 18:05 GMT+00:00 Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi Manual, > > Sorry for the weird description. Hopefully this helps to clarify: > > If there is a complex dependency conflict on installing a package "A", > then aptitude suggests several solutions to resolve the conflict. > I have to select one of these solutions using [,], [.] and [!]. > > Sometimes aptitude suggests quite a number of solutions having one > thing in common: Keeping package "A" uninstalled. > > I understand that not installing "A" is *one* way to resolve the > conflict, but I have no idea why aptitude suggests to remove other > packages together with "keep A uninstalled".
If the actions to all other packages is "remove", not adding some more "positive" actions here and there (upgrade) it is indeed too suboptimal to be considered a solution worth considering instead of just keeping uninstalled. > Its hard to reproduce. I will send you a screen dump when I run > into this problem again. OK, thanks. I think that there might be duplicates, some of them are old, but probably some are fresh enough. I might even have stumbled over it now and then, but since the resolver gives very bad solutions so often, I skip over the bad solutions so quickly that I don't always pay attention. So I'll take a look at this along to other reports at some point, although it's always daunting. One of the things that might have made it worse is enabling multi-arch, which I did a few years ago. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
