On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Greg Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Well, more like unspecified behavior. PMS just says that the PM has to accept any package in the list. It is silent on the matter of which one is to be preferred, or to what degree. As we saw with upower portage will jump through quite a few hoops to install the first dependency - it doesn't always figure out that installing one of the others is easier. It is a bit hard to algorithmically define "easier" - should portage favor fewer package installs, fewer removals, fewer config file changes, avoiding changing the init system (and what constitutes an init system), etc? Plus, there are a lot of potential permutations to deal with. You'd probably need to be more specific as to what is going on to get further. I think most would agree that there is room for improvement here. Rich
