On 2008-04-23 11:53 +0200, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of > sarge before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The > aptitude package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation > where bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has > aptitude as a dependency and cannot install without aptitude being > preinstalled and happy.
Very strange. Given that most users still prefer apt-get over aptitude for installing packages, I don't see how this could be true. > If that problem never did get remedied > (aptitude required to install emacs) then there's no point in my > taking any of this any further. For one thing aptitude ought to be a > pre-dependency of emacs and apt-get didn't know about that and let me > know either. If aptitude is really required to install emacs21 (which I doubt), then that's a bug, period. Note that (according to popcon stats) aptitude is only installed on 98% of all systems, and a few of the remaining might have emacs21 installed. You can also be assured that I installed emacs21 on woody long before aptitude. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
