In <886fa7aa0905220106n791648e1v6b79acecc06b3...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason Filippou wrote: >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.
Aptitude assigns each possible resolution a score. A resolution's score is the sum of the scores of all actions in the resolution. Each possible action has a fixed, integral score. The defaults for these scores and the configuration option to alter them are documented http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html and in the package(s) aptitude-doc-$lang. Those documents contain all the apt.conf settings that will affect aptitude, the ones that affect action score are all of the form: Aptitude::ProblemResolver::${Action}Score. When presenting the user with a solution, aptitude will show the one with the highest score that the resolver has found so far. Solutions that are found to have a score that is too low will be immediately rejected. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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