Re: Gconf glitch

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> I really dislike the semantics of whichever was installed last
> winning. If you install many packages at once, as with an O/S
> installer, you can't necessarily even predict which package will get
> installed first.

having outcome not be dependent on installation order is definitely a
big win for package systems... it would suck to have to manually remove
a package on Debian or something (breaking huge dependency chains with
force overrides) and then re-install it after installing something else.

-seth