On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:01:20PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com> was heard to say: > Is this something to do with apt/dpkg? If you recommend a pure virtual package, apt will pick an arbitrary provider (IIRC the first one that occurs in its internal cache) to fulfill the dependency. Unfortunately, there's no way to make dependencies conditional on the hardware of the system. Daniel