Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:07:43PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Mike Bird]
> > No one objected to having apt decide by giving priority
> > precedence over lexical:
> It sounds good until you notice just how many dependency resolvers we
> have floating around. dselect, apt, aptitude, pbuilder, sbuild - at
> least. Don't know if synaptic has its own or borrows from libapt.
Also, even if no one objected, no one has volunteered to implement this
either.
Amending apt's resolver to prefer packages with a higher priority is a good
goal, but I don't think it should be a blocker for improving our m-t-a
handling.
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