Bug#758234: it's actively harmful
* Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> [141029 19:48]:
> That's obvious. What is not so obvious, to me, is why we would still
> want the current policy in the first place, given that everything(?)
> is resolved via dependencies these days.
Resolving dependencies is a hard and complex task. In general it will
not even have a unique solution. And virtual packages, alternatives
and versioned depends needs more complexity (including backtracking
to find solutions) than most tools can do.
As long as only a small number of packages have the wrong priority,
starting with that set and pulling the rest in via dependencies is
likely to not run into any ugly problems. So simple algorithms have
a chance.
Bernhard R. Link
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