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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: is the whole unstable still broken by gcc-5?
From:       Paul Wise <pabs () debian ! org>
Date:       2015-09-13 21:57:13
Message-ID: CAKTje6Hk+b0bxerSMVCPcASO=TQejz0gsNkbpz_0yi9ho8CH9Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I stopped using aptitude for routine upgrades a while back.  My experience
> with aptitude is that the first solution is almost always wrong, and the
> second solution is sometimes better than the first solution that apt comes
> up with.  That means it's a bad choice for day-to-day use, since you'll
> have to constantly fight with the first suggestion.

This config option improves the aptitude resolver for some situations:

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99aptitude-resolver:
Aptitude::ProblemResolver { SolutionCost "removals"; }

It won't help for incomplete transitions like the GCC5 one though.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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