On 11-09-22 at 08:19am, Bruce Sass wrote: > On September 22, 2011 02:50:25 AM Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> [2011-09-21 23:18:54 CEST]: > > > Debian already favours Main packages by default > > > > Not if the alternative dependency chain has a non-free package > > first. I know what you mean with that non-free isn't enabled by > > default, but the way the dependency chain is written still favours > > non-free packages by default, when available -- which is the thing > > you like to emphasis on, but the favour is still the other way > > round. > > I disagree. The only way a non-free package is going to be > automatically selected is if the sysadmin has added non-Main lines to > sources.list, and the Maintainer has placed a non-Main package before > one from Main in the dependency statement--that's two explicit actions > that need to be taken, compared to zero if non-Main stuff isn't > wanted. Another way a non-free package gets automatically selected is if some package which conflicts with the free alternative, when the package containing non-free alternative (no matter the order) is installed. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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