Re: apt-get should correctly process dependencies

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:12:21AM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
> > The negative effect would be that we could no longer have Depends:
> > preferred-foo | virtual-foo, and that we'd have to implement logic to deal
> > with the virtual package in dselect and others.
> 
> Don't you mean apt and other? As much as I like dselect, I don't think it
> will have any future. If not for woody, then for woody+1 I think it will be
> removed, but that's another issue :-)

Dselect may get removed, but people will still be using it. The joys of
background compatibility :)

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