Venky wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> I've been trying out the new incorporation stuff.  Know it is early
> days still, but I seem to be hitting some problems.  For instance,
> installing a package with an incorporation dependency does not seem
> to pull in its dependent packages.  Also, explicitly installing
> a disallowed version of a constrained package works, even though it
> violates the incorporation constraint.
> 

First of all, an incorporation is an optional dependency, so installing
one doesn't drag in all the dependencies.

Second, due to time constraints, incorporations specify only a minimum
dependency as yet.  This will get fixed, but we need to make 
propose/evalute_fmri
do proper backtracking to work under all conditions.

- Bart







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