Re: Fixing "breaking packages"

Somebody claiming to be Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

"Far too frequently I encountered packages that, when trying to install, would say installing this package will break a dozen others."

I also get this message sometimes, but I never consider it a problem. I just add all the packages that would be broken also to the command line, and that informs the constraints solver a bit more (and rebuilds some things) and then works. I've actually wished for a switch that just does this, but cut-n-paste the packages it tells me about works fine. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph