On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:59:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > [...] but does anyone know if the apt-get system in Ubuntu also > suffers from these problems, and if not why not? apt-get is also in Fedora (yum install apt), so is synaptic, both for a very long time. The dependency resolver cannot do much about conflicts and broken dependencies in the packages. The Smart Packager Manager (yum install smart) tries to find work-arounds, such as downgrades and automatic excludes, but it isn't bullet-proof either.
