On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 06:32:38PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:37 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > This assumes that users will continue to have ia32-libs-tools installed > > during the transition to multiarch. What guarantees that this will be the > > case? Does removing ia32-libs-tools also remove all the packages that were > > installed using it? > Interesting thought. If all packages generated by ia32-libs-tools were > configured to depend on ia32-libs-tools, that might allow a much cleaner > conflict specification? Just conflict with ia32-libs-tools? The conflict specification would be cleaner; the upgrade path would not, as conflicts at the base of a dependency tree tend to confuse apt into giving suboptimal upgrade solutions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
