On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:52:21PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:28:30AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Because, when you have multiple packages providing libc-dev, apt > > stops and says "Shit! Which one should I install?". Your build thus > > fails. > > Why don't we fix apt-get instead of kludging all of our packages? > Purely virtual dependencies should be quite acceptable. what happens if there are multiple packages that provice the pure virtual package? (for instance, www-browser) how would apt determine which one to install? > I'm surprised policy says otherwise... i think that is why policy suggests a real package before the pure virtual one, so that it knows what to choose if there is a conflict. -- gram
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