Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinking more of extending the capabilities of apt itself for 2 > cases: > > 1) > apt-get install foo (>= 1.2-3) > or > apt-get install foo>=1.2-3 > > Sort the known versions of foo according to pin and version like now > but then, instead of picking the top one, pick the first one > fullfilling the version requirement. This could be foo=2.0-5.
That sounds sensible. > 2) > > apt-get install foo > > and foo Depends: bar (>= 1.2-3) > > Install bar >= 1.2-3 even if it is not the top candidate. This should > be just like > > apt-get install foo bar (>= 1.2-3) Without further precautions, this would make life harder for people who currently use pinning. If a package is broken, because it depends on stuff only in experimental, it would just install the experimental version, but I'd rather have a warning here. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
