Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.12.2012, 23:18 +0100 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > > With my scheme, he could install i-want-all-prof-packages and the > > package manager will automatically install the missing -prof packages. > > Actually, that's not guaranteed, since your proposed > i-want-all-prof-packages package doesn't actually have any relationship > with the prof packages. As such, removing all haskell packages might be > a correct solution to the problem of "installing this package causes a > shitload of package conflicts" too and might be the solution the package > manager chooses, depending on the packages which are already installed, > the other operations that are being requested at the same time you > install the metapackage, and the phase of the moon. It’s true that the interaction with the package managers might render this problematic; this needs to be tested. Although in this case I think it should work, as apt-get, AFAIK, will always prefer installing packages over removing existing ones. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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