[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:40:56AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Actualy you are verry wrong there. Not in what it is supposed to do >> but in what actually happens and why update is a good idea. >> >> As you say will do things involving adding or removing packages. >> Unfortunately it is not always too smart about that and result depend >> on the order of updates. For example: >> >> Package: foo >> Version: 1.2-3 >> Depends: foo-simple (= 1.2-3) | foo-heavy (= 1.2-3) >> >> Now imagine you have foo 1.2-1 and foo-heavy 1.2-1 installed then >> dist-upgrade will want to update foo 1.2-3. That will have broken >> dependencies (foo-heavy 1.2-3 is not installed yet) so to fullfill >> them it will add foo-simple 1.2-3. Only later it hits foo-heavy 1.2-1 >> and will also update that to 1.2-3. > > I have never seen dist-upgrade do something that stupid. I have used > dist-upgrade exclusively for almost 10 years now without seeing anything > like that.
Did it on nearly every xemacs update for me. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]