That's true, it would most definitely be a "symlink farm," but what's so bad about that? Priorities in apt would definitely be cool. Is that something that is definitely going to be incorporated?
eric. On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Stephen Pitts wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the problem with doing it in the current > situation is > that you create another symlink farm. 99% of the packages will _not_ be > compiled with PGCC, > so you have maybe 50 deb packages and 2350 links. In the future, if I can > give APT priorities > in the source list, like "Get packages from binary-i386/stable/man. If the > same package > exists in binary-i686/stable/man, then it gets precedence". That would be > just as cool as > apt-get compile-install <pkg> as a previous poster said. > -- > Stephen Pitts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmaster - http://www.mschess.org