On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:31:38AM +0530, shirish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard
to say:
> a) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude remove sabayon
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
I have a vague recollection that aptitude used to output much more
information about not being able to remove / install packages, but
people complained that it was too confusing and distracting. When
you're writing user-facing software, you can't win. :-/
Ah, right, here we go:
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[7/13/2004]
Version 0.2.15.3 "Release Roulette"
- New features:
* When displaying aptitude's explanations about dependency
situations, packages that are unavailable will be marked as such.
* Some messages from the command-line mode (eg, about packages that
are already installed/removed) are now suppressed unless you pass
-v on the command-line.
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I thought I was talked into this by someone, but there's no bug
reference and I can't find any old emails discussing this. So
apparently the idiot who thought this was a good idea was Daniel
Burrows. As usual. (that guy is responsible for more bugs in aptitude
than anyone else I know! Why can't he just leave well enough alone,
eh? :P )
Daniel
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