[Aptitude-devel] Bug#570377: aptitude chooses to remove packages instead of upgrading

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-02-05 00:56:26 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 4 February 2014 19:53, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> > On 2014-02-04 10:49:53 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> >> Again, I am only addressing the proposed patch.  There are better
> >> options, such as adjusting the default value of
> >> Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost to account for the number of
> >> removals vs installs, or similar, but people should use such settings
> >> and provide feedback on the quality of the solutions and their order.
> >
> > It would be better if aptitude could tell the reasons that led to the
> > proposed solution.
> 
> Do you mean:
> 
>  --\ icedtea6-plugin depends upon openjdk-6-jre (= 6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2)
>     -> Remove icedtea6-plugin [6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2 (now, oldstable)]
>   --\ openjdk-6-jre depends upon libjpeg8
>     -> Remove openjdk-6-jre [6b18-1.8.13-0+squeeze2 (now)]
> 
> ?

Something like that. Perhaps that's what the -v --show-why options do.

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