Re: cameleon: byte or native?

[Jérôme Marant <marant.logatique@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

Sven wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:38:54PM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
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> > Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> >
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> >    
> >
> > > > Any idea ?
> > > >        
> > > Depends: zoggy (= 1.2+cvsxxx) | zoggy-byte (= 1.2+cvsxxx)
> > >      
> > Hey, I'm still thinking: how does APT handle automatic installation in
> > such cases? I think it is waiting the user to specify manualy either
> > zoggy or zoggy-byte and does not choose the first dependency it
> > meets. This is bad and not really user friendly (apt-get install
> > cameleon is not going to work out of the box).
> >    
>
> The policy says it chooses one at random, the implementation says it
> chooses the first by default.
>  

Strange. I recall that sometimes it tells the user to specify the wanted 
package
(among those alternatives) in the command-line. Am I wrong?