[wpkg-users] [Bug 117] Dependencies ignore priority

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http://bugzilla.wpkg.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117


Dave Ewart <davee at ceu.ox.ac.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Dave Ewart <davee at ceu.ox.ac.uk>  2008-05-09 15:38:10 ---
> The concepts of dependencies and priorities are orthogonal.

That depends on one's definition of "dependency". ;-)

One could mean:

- A dependency means that one package *requires* another in order to work at
*all* (hard dependency);

or

- A dependency means that package A will not be useful unless package B is also
installed (soft dependency).

Frank is using the second definition; my opinion (and the typical sense of
dependency with regard to package management) is that the first definition is
more  usual.


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