On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 12:53 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > If we see a dependency like "base >= 3" with no upper limit, we > > should satisfy it with base-3 in preference to base-4, on the > > grounds that the package is much more likely to build with base-3. > > This seems to be a solution that works without any magic shims or > > "preference files" or anything else. > > > Choose the lowest available version that satisfies all of the > constraints?
Unfortunately this is the opposite of people normal (mostly reasonable) expectations. Perhaps you mean the highest revision of the lowest major version. Again this requires giving a semantics to the version numbers, which is just what the versioning policy does (for packages that have opted in). Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
