Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> writes: > That was a thread I started on debian-devel:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/08/msg00278.html > The resolution of that thread seemed to be that people were mostly fine > with the dependency chain because every decision in the path makes > sense, even if the end result does not. > Without the package pin of systemd-sysv at -100, installing the > "libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev" package causes an init system switch for me. With > the package pin, apt finds no resolution even though one exists > (#940965). This is a point that Ian's proposal specifically addresses by accepting the possibility that packages will be installable but not usable on non-systemd systems in order to avoid these sorts of dependency chains. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
