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