[Aptitude-devel] Bug#721818: Bug#721818: Should allow to install/remove packages even when dependencies are broken

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi,

Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> There is no way currently to proceed to package (re)installation/remove/purge
> if dependencies are broken.

I think that's part of aptitude's design to work that way.

> When using unstable/experimental I sometimes *need* to break
> dependencies.

Huh? I use aptitude on a lot of Sid/Experimental machines daily and I
need that only in very, very seldom cases. And if so, it's usually
easily to solve with a "dpkg --remove --force-depends" before running
aptitude at all.

Aptitude doesn't let you go into such a situation, so IMHO such a
functionality is not really necessary.

At least for me all those cases were usually caused by using "dpkg
-i", i.e. something outside of aptitude anyway.

But since aptitude saves your current state of planned actions (unless
you quit it with Ctrl-C), it's easy to call "dpkg --remove
--force-depends" without losing your planned actions.

		Regards, Axel
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