[Aptitude-devel] Bug#798240: Bug#798240: aptitude: Sort resolver's solutions by number of removals

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Michele Alessandrini wrote:
> When a serious conflict arises with an update, the resolver usually
> presents many solutions with a lot of removed packages, then you
> have to browse a lot of solutions to usually find a more acceptable
> one, consisting of keeping a few packages at the current version,
> and perhaps removing a few ones. It would be more convenient if the
> first solutions presented were the ones with the minimum number of
> packages removed.

We suspect that this issue got introduced (or worsened) by some
Multiarch fixes. I currently can't find the according bug report, but
I'm very sure, there is one.

Try setting 'Aptitude::ProblemResolver::Remove-Level "maximum";' in
/etc/apt/apt.conf as a workaround.

		Regards, Axel
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