Hi, Sven Luther: > In case i submit a patch or something such, should i discuss things > first, or just go ahead and implement it ? > Probably talk about it first... though frankly I don't see a different way of implementing what you want, and the feature would be nice. (I got bitten by it recently, too -- some packe depended on another package which depended on "some" HTTP server ;-)
> BTW, do you think apt-get (in its current incarnation) will choose a > true package in priority over a virtual one ? If my guess is true and it grabs the first one it finds in the package list (I haven't checked the source -- no time :-/ ), that may well be a virtual package. You should probably ask the maintainer(s). -- Matthias Urlichs | noris network AG | http://smurf.noris.de/
