On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I strongly suspect that this is pure BS. I have never had a problem with > conflict resolution with either flavors of dist-upgrade, namely > apt-get dist-upgrade and > aptitude dist-upgrage. Both work for me. > Furthermore, the code for dist-upgrade is surely a modular chunk in both > programs, written by people who talk to each other. If one chunk handled > the problem better than the other chunk, the inferior would soon be > replaced. Both code chunks and shameless copy are the open source way. >
There were a number of discussions on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in #debian-devel that suggested that many testers ran into problems (most notably if KDE was installed) with the apt and aptitude in Woody not getting all the dependencies correct. This is mostly because the packages and their dependencies have changed so wildly. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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