Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Andreas Tille writes: >>> I think the change of priority from extra to optional is wrong. Per >>> policy packages with priority optional can not Depend / Recommend >>> packages with priority extra. Since we have no way to control the >>> priority of all dependencies the metapackages should remain at priority >>> extra. Alternatively the every single priority of metapackages needs >>> to be set explicitly. >> >> OK, that is a good point; I didn' think on it. I'll just revert the >> Priority to extra for the moment. > > IIRC the plan for optional/extra was to delete extra entirely. No idea > what happened to that idea.
What was the alternative to deal with conflicting packages? Best Ole
