Comment 71 for bug 831768

On Apr 27, 2012 2:10 AM, "Edward Donovan" <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I know this isn't a referendum, I just found these two cents in my
> pocket.
>
> Shahar wrote:
> > It's resolver is not so hot but to say that it "does not work" is a bit
misleading!
>
> For what little it's worth, it looks that way to me, too. I can only
> see that aptitude 'works' on a level it had not since multiarch began.
> I have used aptitude for the great majority of its existence, about ten
> years. Comparing the present Ubuntu package to those experiences:
>
> - I don't recall a time when the resolver worked much better for me,
> than 0.6.6 does. I don't want to paper over the weaknesses of the
> resolver, at all. I can't see that, with the recent multiarch patch,
> they've regressed a lot from the time before multiarch. I don't have
> test cases to offer, and anyone who does may trump my personal
> experience.
>
> - Aptitude under multiarch was very broken for me; not really usable,
> until the recent 0.6.6.
>
> - I now use it as I did in the past. It seems restored to the previous
> level of functionality, for me, and I keep thinking "this is great, I
> have aptitude back!"
>
> So perhaps someone will have a good wording to describe the situation
> accurately. Acknowledge whatever clear regressions still exist, since
> pre-multiarch. And convey that aptitude, in 12.04, works much, much
> more than it did in the last few releases. If I had not been following
> Precise all along, that is the information I would want to know.

Great! Thank you, Edward! My thoughts exactly.
>
> I don't have a comprehensive picture of everyone's experience, of
> course. This is just my attempt to contribute to it, and I have no
> great complaint with the situation as it is. Thanks.
>
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> Title:
> aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled
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