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On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:33:10 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> > There is a way, uninstall rust. virtual/rust requires only one of rust |
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> > and rust-bin, if both are installed it will take rust meaning rust-bin |
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> > gets depcleaned. If only one is installed, the virtual will take |
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> > that. If neither is install, the virtual will pull in rust. |
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> > Adding packages like this to the world file is storing up problems for |
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> > later. |
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> Agreed. But if an update comes along, will it still use rust-bin, or |
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> will it upgrade rust-bin to rust? |
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It won't. it's not an upgrade, they are two different packages that |
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satisfy the dependency. In the same way that a package that depends on |
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virtual/mta won't try to install sendmail if you have postfix installed. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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K: (n., adj.) a binary thousand, which isn't a decimal thousand or even |
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really a binary thousand (which is eight), but is the binary number |
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closest to a decimal thousand. This has proven so completely confusing |
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that is has become a standard. |
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