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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