> > Maybe we could mark the mail-transport-agent virtual package as important
>
> And just how do you suggest we do that? :-P
No idea. I don't even know if this is possible. Maybe we could define a
base-system task which is automatically selected by tasksel and depends
on mail-transport-agent an
> Gah, this is really nasty. Suppose you want to have a task package that
> provides a mail server. This is hypothetically possible, I can think of
> a couple of reasons like task-laptop might want to set you up with some
> trivial mail server.
>
> So tasksel runs, and because it was passed -i,
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> If you select two packages that provide the same thing but mutually
> conflict APT will indeed automatically select the package with the higher
> score based on the internal scoring mechanism. That pretty much means
> important wins for your case.
>
> There isn't much els
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Then it goes and runs apt-get -f. Apt wakes up, looks around, notices two
> conflicting mail servers are marked for install. Notices exim is Important
> and is depended on by a load of other stuff. Pre-emptively decides not to
> install the other mail serv
Gah, this is really nasty. Suppose you want to have a task package that
provides a mail server. This is hypothetically possible, I can think of
a couple of reasons like task-laptop might want to set you up with some
trivial mail server.
So tasksel runs, and because it was passed -i, it goes and
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