[pacman-dev] pacman should ask the user on multipile choices
Roman Kyrylych
roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 13:59:41 EST 2007
2007/3/7, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this is a bug or missing feature; so I sent this to the ml
> first.
>
> Sometime a package depends on a "meta" package which is provided by more than
> one packages. For example "libgl" or "smtp-server". At the moment pacman just
> installs the first package it founds which is the wrong decision for most
> cases.
>
> So pacman has to ask the user in such cases.
IIRC there was a FR in Flyspray, but I can't find it though.
Or maybe it was discussed in ML.
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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
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