On Friday, October 05, 2018 07:25:29 AM Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 07:03:13AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can someone describe (or point to) a description of how dist-upgrade > > determines the more important app? (Oh, I'm guessing it has to do with > > the whatever it is called label on each package, something like > > required, recommended, ... (I may be using the wrong words). Supposed > > dist-upgrade has to choose between two packages that have the same > > label? > > I'm afraid I lost you here. > Is 'more important' refers to dependency alternatives? Package > priorities? Something else? > By 'label' did you mean 'Tag' field or something else? > > Let's try to do it this way. > Execute 'apt show bash', observe there result. > Ask your question once more, but this time use 'apt show bash' as a > guide.
Thanks for your reply! Ok, I ran <quote> root@s31:~# apt show bash Package: bash Version: 4.3-11+deb8u1 Essential: yes Installed-Size: 5,130 kB Maintainer: Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> Replaces: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0), bash-doc (<= 2.05-1) Depends: base-files (>= 2.1.12), debianutils (>= 2.15) Pre-Depends: dash (>= 0.5.5.1-2.2), libc6 (>= 2.15), libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~), libtinfo5 Recommends: bash-completion (>= 20060301-0) Suggests: bash-doc Conflicts: bash-completion (<< 20060301-0) Homepage: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::shell, role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnu, uitoolkit::ncurses Section: shells Priority: required Download-Size: 1,172 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://debian.cc.lehigh.edu/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages Description: GNU Bourne Again SHell Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh). . Bash is ultimately intended to be a conformant implementation of the IEEE POSIX Shell and Tools specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). . The Programmable Completion Code, by Ian Macdonald, is now found in the bash-completion package. </quote> I'm not sure I know enough to re-phrase the question. I'm also surprised / confused to see the two tags: "Essential: yes" and "Priority: required" -- I presume that is not redundant information, but at first glance it seems so. Anyway, I am just "fishing" for information on how dist-upgrade decides which package is more important to install (when faced with such a decision). I suppose I can live without knowing that ;-)
