On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:27:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > Yesterday on the chat rooms it was claimed that using aptitude was more > > successful and effective than using apt-get dist-upgrade. Apparently > > aptitude is supposed to do the conflict resolution better than > > dist-upgrade or apt-get. > > > > I have not personally any experience to confirm or deny this statement. > > > > 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.
What makes you so sure of that? AFAIK, Jason Gunthorpe, the main APT developer, has not been very active for several years. > 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. AIUI, the APT resolver code is very complicated and difficult to understand, and aptitude contains a completely different resolver written from scratch. In any case, I doubt it's trivial to drop one resolver into the other. -- Society is never going to make any progress until we all learn to pretend to like each other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
