Bug#107380: apt is installing packages which are not depended upon

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:51:47AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> I think you may be reading the dependency information wrong.  Comma (",")
> should be read as boolean "and", which has higher precedence than boolean
> "or" (represented by "|").  So the dependencies are:

Of course, I meant that "," has a higher precedence than "|".  This is contrary
to most boolean systems, where "and" has a higher precedence than "or".

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 - mdz