apt-get package order on commandline matters

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

Hi!

Just encountered a strange thing, that I suppose is incorrect behaviour of
apt-get. Running 2.2rev0 on i386 from only the Official 1_NONUS CD; apt-get
--version: 0.3.19.

xf86setup has Depends: xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi  (and more, but unrelevant)

With "apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xf86setup", -100dpi is NOT installed.
But with "apt-get install xf86setup xfonts-75dpi", BOTH -75dpi AND -100dpi are
installed.

AFAIK apt-get should know that -75dpi is being installed, so that the
dependency is satisfied already.

(Makes me wonder what happens if A Deps: B | C, and B and C are mutually
conflicting and you type "apt-get install A C"...)


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer

PS. If you like this better in an official bug report, I'd be happy to
submit one.