Re: Gconf glitch

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:
> > 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.

I think having outcome depend on install order would be totally
broken, I'm not guessing anyone will advocate it for long...

(With the obvious exception that sometimes it's well-defined and
enforced by a Prereq.)

Havoc