Comment 70 for bug 831768
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| Edward Donovan (edward.donovan) wrote | #70 |
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(Get the code!)
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.
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.