Danek Duvall wrote:
> I've gotten myself into what might be an odd situation.  My two authorities
> are cyber and ipkg.sfbay, with the latter as my preferred authority, but
> the former has newer packages.
> 
> In particular, both have packages with versions @...-0.91, but cyber has
> newer timestamps available than ipkg.
> 
> Okay, that's fine.  But when resolving a dependency that is stated with an
> untimestamped version, should I choose the latest version, or the version
> from my default authority?  Given that the authority shouldn't matter in
> which I choose, I'd guess that choosing the latest version is more
> important, but I wondered if anyone else had an opinion on the subject.  I
> think the current code will choose preferred authority over version, FWIW.

do you really mean "over version" or "over timestamp", which you referred 
to previously?

Michael
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