[Synaptic-devel] Fix broken packages

[Andrey Tarassov]

Hi!

I have noticed some strange behaviour when using the "Fix broken 
packages" feature. I tried to remove the libgnome package by calling:

rpm -e libgnome --nodeps

Then I started synaptic and apparently received a warning about broken 
packages. Then I tried "Fix broken packages" and synaptic suggested to 
remove all those packages that depend on libgnome. I guess that's not a 
user-friendly solution ;-)

On the contrary, when you try to run "apt-get -f install", apt-get would 
offer you to install libgnome package that is missing. This looks like a 
more correct behaviour for me.

What do you guys think about it?

Thanks,

Andrey

P.S> I am using synaptic 0.47.

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Andrey Tarasov
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