Re: provides and dependencies
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> > I heard it was a bug in apt-get; it needs "A | B" as it can't
> > select something itself to provide B. dpkg itself is fine.
>
> apt should probably just select the highest-priority package if
> multiple choices are available.
I agree; we shouldn't be using hacks in our dependencies
to work around apt's missing features.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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