On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Norbert Preining wrote: > 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
You're speaking of something that you have not understood. The order of packages listed in an OR has not changed... I am (of course) aware that the order has a meaning in that case. > Alternatives have an order, re-ordering this is BAD! Posting without verifying one's own assertions is bad too... > Raphael, could you please explain the reasoning behind reordering > *within* alternatives, if this is done. If not all is ok. "All is ok" as you say. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
