On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:31:58PM +0100, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > > - meta-gnome2 has unsatisfiable dependencies: > > > - gnome needs rhythmbox compiled for mips > > > - gnome-desktop-environment needs epiphany-browser compiled for mips > > > - gnome-office needs planner compiled for m68k, mips, sparc > > > > Those don't make it not a valid candidate. > > Oh, ok. Why is that?
It's a hack so that Architecture: all packages don't have to wait for their dependencies on all architectures when that might take essentially forever. They're special-cased to look only on i386. IIRC, aj once said that he didn't much like this but that it was necessary in practice. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
