[Aptitude-devel] Bug#626626: aptitude: Please make using the dependency solver optional (or remove it altogether)

[Axel Beckert]

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Hi Andreas,

Andreas Kloeckner wrote:
> All it does is waste time to do the solve, plus it spews "internal
> error" messages. I have yet to see it make a usable suggestion.

IIRC the "internal error" messages have been fixed for quite a while
now.

> Please. Aptitude was a good piece of software *before* its addition.

I'm sorry, but I can't follow you here. Without a dependency solver,
aptitude would be not able to install any package which hasn't all
dependencies already fulfilled by already installed packages.

Do you by chance mean the automatic dependency resolver which is
invoked at anytime you make an interactive package selection change in
aptitude's TUI?

If so: That one can easily be disabled in the TUI under Options →
Preferences → Dependency handling → Automatically resolve dependencies
of a package when it is selected or with setting
'aptitude::Auto-Install "false";' in either ~/.aptitude/config or
/etc/apt/apt.conf.

		Regards, Axel
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