Re: [Synaptic-devel] Fix broken packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Andrey Tarassov wrote:

> 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?

Synaptic does something completely different to "fix broken stuff" 
compared to apt. The attached patch makes it behave like apt (install 
libgnome instead of everything depending on it) but perhaps Michael or 
Gustavo known something why it was done the way it is instead of copying 
apt-get behavior?

Sorry it's against 0.46 but for some reason (probably because jade is
trying to access internet and doesn't honor http_proxy setting or
something) I'm unable to compile 0.47 at work on RHL 9 while it builds
just fine at home where I'm not behind a proxy... Ideas to get around that
would be welcome as well :)

        - Panu -

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