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

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





--- Comment #4 from Frank Lee <rl201 at cam.ac.uk>  2008-05-09 15:48:27 ---
> > The concepts of dependencies and priorities are orthogonal.
> That depends on one's definition of "dependency". ;-)

I was using the term as I intended it to be used when I wrote the package
original dependency code! (Much improved by others since, of course.)

> 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).

One could, yes. Or one could mean:
- A dependency means that to install a package requires another package to be
installed
or
- A dependency means that to run a package requires another to be installed

> 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.

Frank thinks he's using neither of these definitions, actually (-:

What I mean by a dependency is that the WPKG admin has decided that when one
package is selected, some other package(s) should be automatically selected.
(It's up to the admin to determine whether that's a hard or soft [as defined
above!] dependency.) And that's all. 

My point is that I feel WPKG ought not to re-order the priority of the packages
based on dependencies.

Yours,

Frank


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