Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:33:34PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Successor-Of: > > This has been proposed many times, including by me. At one point I tried > to convince Jason Gunthorpe of it. He started burning black candles, drew > a thaumaturgic circle around himself, and mumbled something about it making > the task apt's problem-resolver NP-complete. I can't really imagine why. Apt can ATM handle multiple versions of the same package pretty well. What will it matter in principle if these incarnations are not called foo-1.0 and foo-1.2, but foo-1.1 and bar-2.3? Even if more than one package are named as successors of foo, apt could just lump them together into one bar&baz&quux node in its dependency DAG (they are not allowed to conflict, of course). -- Robbe
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