On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:13:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:45:31PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: > > 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? > > It should pick the one with the highest priority, and if there's still > several, pick one at random. Or sort the names and pick the one that > comes first, or last, or second or something. According to the > dependencies they all provide the requested functionality anyway. or the one with the most dependencies already installed. -- gram
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