On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:38:54PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Any idea ? > > > Depends: zoggy (= 1.2+cvsxxx) | zoggy-byte (= 1.2+cvsxxx) > > Hey, I'm still thinking: how does APT handle automatic installation in > such cases? I think it is waiting the user to specify manualy either > zoggy or zoggy-byte and does not choose the first dependency it > meets. This is bad and not really user friendly (apt-get install > cameleon is not going to work out of the box).
The policy says it chooses one at random, the implementation says it chooses the first by default. Friendly, Sven Luther

