On Fr, 22 Feb 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I can understand it might change the list of packages pulled, but both set
> are supposed to work since that what dependencies are expressing. If you
I disagree. Sometimes alternatives are something we put in to help
transition. We have
... texlive-foo | tetex-bar
and if this gets reordered that would be actually a big disadvantage.
People will suddently get HUGE amount of packages due to
tetex-bar depends on several texlive-packages
Alternatives have an order, re-ordering this is BAD!
dpkg should only reorder the different depends, NOT within ONE depend
the alternatives!
At least that is what was suggested by Kevin and somehow ack-ed by
Raphael.
Raphael, could you please explain the reasoning behind reordering
*within* alternatives, if this is done. If not all is ok.
> That said this new behaviour is not particulary new. It's been in unstable
> since the 19th november 2007. And we haven't seen major breakage in the
Ah, but maybe some of the bugs "why the hack do I get 500Mb of TeXlive
when I only wanted foobar" we got could be related to this (selecting
tetex-bin transitional package instead of the real dep of texlive).
Best wishes
Norbert
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