Hi Daniel, On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:32:04AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > In all cases it seems unlikely to affect aptitude. If it is capable to > > > handle dependencies for prerm's in the circular loop case, it is most > > > probably capable to do the same in simpler cases like this one.
> > I don't know if it's true that aptitude does this, or if some other > > difference between apt-get and aptitude means that aptitude tends to be > > "luckier". > While I'm not opposed to people having warm happy fuzzy feelings about > aptitude, I know of no fundamental reason that it should be immune to > this problem. The issue (as far as I understand it) is the way in which > dpkg is invoked, which aptitude completely punts to apt. Thanks for the input. Do aptitude and apt pass the same number of packages to dpkg at a time? Could that be a difference here? (That was the sort of difference I was thinking of in terms of aptitude getting "lucky".) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
