On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:31:31AM +0200, Christoph Pleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello Daniel, > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:37:16 -0700 > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks like the problem is that aptitude is noticing that you have > > a > > pile of unresolved recommendations and fixing them for you. The weird > > thing, to me, is that there are no candidates to resolve the > > recommendations, which I bet is why aptitude insists on removing the > > packages. > > When I add cupsys-bsd to the package list which I set by "dpkg > --set-selections", all desired packages are installed. But I do not want > do that, see below.
What I mean by that is that aptitude can't find any way to resolve the recommendations, other than removing the recommenders. Eliminating all hard dependency conflicts "fixes" the problem because aptitude doesn't have to resolve dependencies at all (it only notices broken recommendations when it's kicked into dependency resolution). Have you tried turning down the penalty for leaving recommendations unsatisfied? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
