[packagekit] Questions about Get Depends and Get Requires

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 19:19 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> Unless some other package explicitly lists adobe-flash as the only
> supported library while the "whatever comes first" resulted in
> installation of gnash.

Well, if I just ask the backend to choose one, which does it choose?

> Then you get a nice coflict (and a hard one to
> resolve as it's hard to tell if it's safe to uninstall one package
> just because some other one conflicts).

Sure, My view is that we shouldn't have packages providing the same
file, nor have i386 packages on a x64 system, although that's quite some
controversy right there. :-)

Richard.