Re: Please release 2.1r6

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On the downside, it doesn't care about priorities, and doesn't list
> > explanations (it seems hard to work out what's at fault when conflicts
> > are involved).
> 
> I'm curious, what exactly do you do with conflicts? Detect depend<->conflict
> problems (ie a depends on b which conflicts with a)?

At least, there should not be any conflicts among the set of optional 
or higher packages (that is one of the purposes of the extra priority).

This means you should be able to install everything but the extra 
packages, with no conflicts (provided you have the time and the disk 
space required for that).

Thanks.