Re: Bug#29874: optional packages that should be extra

[Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:53:58PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 	I must confess that even I thought the the policy statement
>  meant that one should be able to install all optional packages
>  simultaneously. 
> 
> 	Though this is a laudable goal, and indeed, was once
>  achievable, but with all the packages that we have now (pushing on to
>  3000), I don't know if we can actually make the promise stick.

This would seem to indicate policy needs to be altered to indicate the
user may install optional packages without fear of breaking anything in
above priorities, but that they might conflict with eachother.

The package that started this thread was that smail (I believe) is
priority optional and exim is higher priority.  In that case smail should
be moved to extra.

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