[Aptitude-devel] Bug#653284: unreasonable "Do not install"

[Harald Dunkel]

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Hi Manual,

Sorry for the weird description. Hopefully this helps to clarify:

If there is a complex dependency conflict on installing a package "A",
then aptitude suggests several solutions to resolve the conflict.
I have to select one of these solutions using [,], [.] and [!].

Sometimes aptitude suggests quite a number of solutions having one
thing in common: Keeping package "A" uninstalled.

I understand that not installing "A" is *one* way to resolve the
conflict, but I have no idea why aptitude suggests to remove other
packages together with "keep A uninstalled".

Its hard to reproduce. I will send you a screen dump when I run
into this problem again.


Regards
Harri

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