In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:27:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or > dselect. > [snip] I keep hearing about the advantages of aptitude (over, for example, Synaptic), but your article, Mr. Hess, was excellent. I gave aptitude another try last night and most of my earlier problems with it are gone. Libranet decided a few months ago to modify my sources.list to use unstable instead of testing. I'm now finding there are about 50 packages I can't upgrade because of unsatisfied dependencies. aptitude shows these packages as 'Broken' so I've changed their status to 'Hold' because I want to keep them. I hope you'll consider these questions. 1) If I don't want to remove packages simply because the upgrade path is currently broken, is it safe to remove the 'Hold' and leave them as 'Broken'? 2) If I can find some combination of packages which resolves the unsatisfied-dependency conditions, is it safe to install these? By 'safe' above, I mean only 'my system won't die a horrible, flaming death', not 'the packages are completely secure and bug-free'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
