[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add interactive provider selection

[Xavier Chantry]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 20/10/10 05:10, Xavier Chantry wrote:
>>
>> If there are multiple providers in one db, pacman used to just stop at
>> the first one (both during dependency resolution or for pacman -S
>> 'provision' which uses the same code).
>>
>
> I like the idea, but does this not work cross repos?
>

That's indeed what I tried to describe above.
I hesitated on this point, but finally I thought this behavior was
more consistent with normal target (literal) lookup or group members
lookup in the db. It's always the first repo that has the priority and
others are ignored.

It should not be hard to change the behavior of _alpm_resolvedep though.