On Monday 30 August 2004 02:47 pm, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:39:47 +0200, Sebastian Ley > <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > >It is a good idea to explicitly specify at least one package that fulfills a > >virtual dependency. You could view it as the recommendation of the packager, > >if you don't care about the httpd daemon, apt will install apache. > > How will it choose apache? Will it choose apache because it happens to > be the alphabetically first httpd? Or is apache somewhere configured > as the primary target httpd? > > I think that last time I looked at that issue, a package satisfying > the dependency was chosen at random. I think he means that if you say "Depends: apache | httpd", apt will choose apache if you don't manually install another httpd. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> -------------------\ | "The problem with LaTeX is that your answers | | look so good, you think they *must* be right!" | | -- Thomas Banchoff | \-Evil Overlord, Inc: planning your future today. http://www.eviloverlord.com-/
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