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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Feb 23 18:42:40 UTC 2007


On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:36:53PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> For all the bizarre decisions apt-rpm can occasionally do in depsolving, 
> this kind of thing it does rather well. Depending on various details and 
> the used method, it'll either hold back from updating a package or remove 
> if there's no other way to solve the issue. Additionally with 
> --fix-missing it's much more forgiving about partially out-of-sync mirrors 
> than yum is.

Yeah, it's nice how APT is happy to totally eat all of your system so it can
reduce it to a consistent set. :)


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