On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jason Filippou <jason.filip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Being new to Debian and running Squeeze I'm curious as to what the "Score is > x" line's supposed to mean when examining solutions to solve package > dependences through aptitude. I noticed that the value of "x" may differ > greatly from one solution to another. >
I'm not very familiar with how it works, but I think it's something like this: When aptitude tries to resolve dependency issues (deciding what to downgrade, what to keep at the same version, what to remove, etc), it assigns points to each of those operations, and then gets a total (higher is better, lower is worse, I think). Often, there are multiple ways to solve a dependency issue, and aptitude will choose the one that is the least objectionable (has the least problems, according to it's internal scoring system). If you don't like that solution, it will present you with the next least-objectionable solution. Also, you can affect how the scoring works, by editing your apt preferences and setting priorities. You can find more info here: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences But, like I said before, I don't know if this is exactly how it works. The above is mostly my theory based on observations of aptitude's behavior. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
