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Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages



On 2016-10-13 00:09:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2016 15:43:17 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2016-10-04 22:51:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > my position remains the same:
> > > > aptitude is poorly designed.
> > >
> > > Fine.  So don't use it.  But moaning won't help anyone, not even you. 
> > > You don't like Aptitude.  We get the message.  So don't use Aptitude.
> >
> > And what do you propose instead?
> 
> I don't use Sid, so haven't tested out which package managers are good for it 
> when there are problems, but how about looking at apt or apt-get?  Ben says 
> that he has great success with apt-get.  Apt-get is much less aggressive than 
> aptitude - but less fully featured.
> 
> If I use aptitude with a large number of upgrades, I try to break it up.  At 
> the very least I do
> # aptitude update
> #aptitude -s safe-upgrade
> # aptitude safe-upgrade
> # aptitude -s full-upgrade
> # aptitude full-upgrade

Sorry for the late reply, but all these may remove important packages,
i.e. they have the same issues.

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