Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: 
>
>  It's not a problem of "NoAuto: yes": as you note yourself, there's no
>  way with plain APT to pull from a repository only when it's required.
>
>  You could argue that APT lacks the feature, but I think we need some
>  higher level program to force APT into installing the correct versions
>  (just like pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental does for example).
>
> --
> Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>

I think that is a shortcomming of apt though.

apt-get install foo=1.2-3

will fetch foo 1.2-3 from whatever repository that has that
version. But with

Package: foo
Version: 1.2-3
Depends: bar (= 1.2-3)

apt-get will NOT fetch bar 1.2-3 unless it happens to have the highest
pin and highest version by chance.


I think 'apt-get install' should, at least optionally, override the
pin/version restrictions to fullfill dependencies.

MfG
Goswin


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