Hello, On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:03:00 -0700 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? That helped, but I think that aptitude should never let packages uninstalled only because of recommendations that cannot be fulfilled. Regards Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
