2013/5/14 Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:08:30PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote:
> > I usually add a bunch of packages in a row, and when it wants me to
> > interact, I don't understand why the packages act differently:
> >
> > pkg_add subversion mtr arping rsync
> > Ambiguous: choose dependency for subversion-1.7.8:
> > a 0: apr-util-1.4.1p0
> > 1: apr-util-1.4.1p0-ldap
> [...]
> > Ambiguous: choose package for rsync
> > a 0: <None>
> > 1: rsync-3.0.9p2
> > 2: rsync-3.0.9p2-iconv
> > Your choice: 1
> > rsync-3.0.9p2:
> > ok
> >
> > Why does rsync think 0 (None) is a "good" default? The other deps for svn
> > all think 0 is a choice where something actually gets installed, but 0
> for
> > rsync seems to be .. Dont.
>
> All other packages are dependencies.
> rsync is something you ask for, so you can decide to let it NOT install
> anything.
>
>
Ok, thanks for the explanation.
