On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 05:59:04PM +0100, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> When you use the -t option to choose a different archive when installing a 
> metapackage, only the 
> metapackage itself is installed from the selected archive. Its dependencies - 
> the ones that matter in this case - are installed from the default 
> archive, so the option is pretty useless here.
> Instead, aptitude should e.g. also install dependencies from the specified 
> archive.

  Am I right in guessing that you're installing from experimental?

  deity@ readers: it looks like MarkInstall's dependency resolution won't
install from experimental even if Default-Release is set to experimental.
Does anyone know whether this is deliberate?  It seems like a bug to me.

  Daniel



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