On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:01:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:19:49PM -0700, Michael Epting wrote: > > > is, we get kde2 package combinations that don't work. I'm beginning to > > think there is a serious fundamental problem with apt... > > Not really. If the packages don't work together then the packages > should have dependancies saying that. It might be desirable to have > facilities to work around buggy packages like that, but in general > the current behaviour (believe the information provided by the > packages) is perfectly sensible.
The problem is that apt-get offers no means of choosing a site source on a per-package basis. That is, I want to offer preferential treatment to Helix for Gnome stuff and maybe to tydc for KDE2 stuff (or maybe to debian.org -- my current workaround is to comment out the tydc lines in my sources.list and KDE2 is working much better just now). So far, I have been unable to find a way to figure out in advance what package versions apt is going to install, much less which site they are going to come from.
