Re: Should we allow packages to depend on packages with lower priority values?

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:01:17 -0700, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From my experience as a user, package categories complicate user >understanding without any apparent benefit. When I first read about >them I was puzzled as to why they exist. My current thinking is that >they somehow sim

Re: Should we allow packages to depend on packages with lower priority values?

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:25:07 -0700, Paul E Condon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My understanding of the issue in the original post of this thread is > >that situations can arrise where Debian policy forbids including some > >package on

Re: Should we allow packages to depend on packages with lower priority values?

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:25:07 -0700, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My understanding of the issue in the original post of this thread is >that situations can arrise where Debian policy forbids including some >package on a CD in a way that the poster thinks it should be >included. I suppos