CD Splitting

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

Hi,

After giving this some thought I belive it is doable but to get exactly
two breaks requires,
  1 - CD splits occur on section boundries (extra, optional, etc)
  2 - No package predepends on a package in a lower section
  2a - No essential or immediate configure package depends on a package
       in a lower section.
  3 - All essential packages and their recursive dependants are on a 
      single CD and that CD is the first CD.

Also some extremely strong words about conflicts/conflicts loops should be
added to the policy, they are handled but the removed package is random
and may be essential. The algorithm detects and ABORTS on a predepends or
depends (with immediate configure) loop, these should be forbidden. 
Predepends loops are already rendered unistallable by dpkg but immediate
configure depends loops are not. 

Jason


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