On 02/03/11 14:41, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 04:53:46 am Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On 02/03/11 04:24, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> It seems to me not worth a mass bug filing. This doesn't seem like >>> something that would affect user's systems. Is there a rationale for >>> imposing this ordering other than puiparts can't deal with it? >> >> If you have non-free enabled and install a package from main, it should >> install the dependencies from main. So you should have e.g. "rar | >> rar-nonfree" instead of the other way round. > > Why? If the user has made the choice to use non-free and the maintainer > concludes that's a more technically capable solution for users that choose to > use it, why should the project raise barriers to that choice?
If the user has rar-nonfree installed, that would be fine, as the dependency would be satisfied. If he doesn't have it, then installing a package from main shouldn't install packages outside main, so we should prefer packages in main over those outside it. Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6e5e8b.2080...@debian.org
