Re: A summary of where I think we are on the technical side of the merged /usr discussion
>>>>> "Luca" == Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> writes:
Luca> Wouldn't a pre-depends solve the ordering problem in this
Luca> case?
No.
At least it's really hard to prove that it does, we have a bad track
record of getting it wrong, and if it were to work in a
specific instance it would depend on implementation details rather than
simply on guarantees made by the interfaces of dpkg and apt.
I'm not saying that something like that can't be part of a solution. If
it is, it will be because someone put in real effort into reasoning
about the correctness of the solution.
--Sam
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