Hi, Santiago Vila: > As it has been pointed out by others, whenever we have a set of > mutually conflicting packages performing the same task, the package > having optional priority is the one that we recommend among them. > > It is a way to tell the user "in doubt, use this one". > … which also implies that it shouldn't conflict with any other package of priority <extra. There are currently 450+ binary packages which violate this in the archive, according to aptitude, so if we want to keep this rule somebody needs to go through the list and file a large bug. (I won't recommend filing bugs on 200 packages at this stage; this si what the Override file is good at, after all.) _If_ we keep this rule, long term, I'd be willing to do that. Some of it can be automated, but not much. -- -- Matthias Urlichs
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