Apt dependency hell

[Ben Scott]

On 11/29/06, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I thought apt wasn't suseptible to RPM dependency hell?  At least that
>> what all the Debian people have been telling RedHat users for years.
>
> Those people have never mixed a system together from stable/testing/unstable :)

  I've been running "etch" (the current "testing") at home for the
past few months, and that by itself has encountered dependency
problems.  I normally wouldn't have too big a problem with that, but
it's rather annoying that all the Debian zealots keep saying the
problems can't possibly be happening.... :-(

> Try using aptitude install foo. I find that aptitude seems to do a
> better job of "fixing" things than apt-get.

  I thought apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, etc., were all just frontends
to the "APT system"?

-- Ben