apt (was: gtkam missing)

[Temlakos]

Perhaps. I've learned that if apt insists on removing a package, I can
wait a week or two and the removal recommendations will go
away--probably replaced by upgrade recommendations on some of the
dependent packages.

Temlakos

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:40, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> > 
> > And when will *apt* distribute with Fedora? The best package manager
> > ever invented, the best solution to the RPM dependency problem I've ever
> > seen
> 
> Don't get overboard here. Apt is doing extremely poor job if
> an installation is not "absolutely depency clean" and the last
> thing in practice may be not happen sometimes for multiple reasons.
> I have seen cases where apt insisted on deleting half of packages
> because of something obscure and unimportant.  On some level it
> was "right" at the given moment but also totally unhelpful and
> allowing it to do what it wanted to do would be very destructive.
> 
>    Michal