Re: Can apt be steered?
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote:
>
> > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to
> > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt...
>
> Not really. If the packages don't work together then the packages
> should have dependancies saying that. It might be desirable to have
> facilities to work around buggy packages like that, but in general
> the current behaviour (believe the information provided by the
> packages) is perfectly sensible.
The problem is that apt-get offers no means of choosing a site source
on a per-package basis. That is, I want to offer preferential treatment
to Helix for Gnome stuff and maybe to tydc for KDE2 stuff (or maybe to
debian.org -- my current workaround is to comment out the tydc lines in
my sources.list and KDE2 is working much better just now). So far, I
have been unable to find a way to figure out in advance what package
versions apt is going to install, much less which site they are going
to come from.
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