Greg Turner posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2014 03:14:14 -0700 as excerpted: > WTF is up with it? Why does it love the first Atom so much more than > the others? > > It could be such a useful feature, but, in practice, it just never seems > to do what I want it to. Is it a bug?
[FWIW, the HTML isn't particularly appreciated.] AFAIK, the first atom is simply the one chosen to fill the dependency if none of the || choices are currently installed. As such the first one is the default, but if one of the others is installed that should fill the dependency just as well. As well, I /believe/ (but don't know for sure) that the resolver prefers other slots of installed packages to those not installed at all, so a new slot of something already installed but not in the first/default position should be preferred over the first/default dependency. Obviously this would be particularly important for subslot dependencies. Is that not the behavior you're seeing? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
