[Aptitude-devel] Bug#651410: aptitude: in dependency resolutions, aptitude should favor library removal

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2016-04-01 19:58:20 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2016-03-22 13:27 Vincent Lefevre:
> > A single removal is bad if it is an application.
> 
> That's strange coming from you, who use the resolver costs of minimizing
> removals ;-)

Not really. What I want is:
  * no removals = good
  * any number of removals = bad

Minimizing removals seems to be the best choice to do that. I would
prefer something like "removals ? 10000 : 0", but that's not possible.

Now, the "removals" solution cost guarantees that the first solution
doesn't contain any removal. So, that's OK. I can do a clean upgrade
first (without removals at all), then inspect what to do about the
removals. Without the "removals" solution cost, this is not possible.

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