On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:20:34PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > 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 ;-)
Ok, i will look into it, as time permitt (not that i have much of it right now, but then there is not really all that much urgency in it). I would like to look into versioned virtual packages also at the same time. > > 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). Ok, will do, Thanks for your help. Friendly, Sven Luther
