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Re: Can we add debathena-thirdparty as a dependency of debathena-cluster?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Mar 20 21:14:12 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:13:01 -0400
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
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On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Evan Broder wrote:
> Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>> mit-scheme remains uninstallable, but should be fixed Real Soon Now,
>> per https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341832 , and at that point we can
>> make the package a dependency instead of a recommendation.
>
> No, we can't. mit-scheme is only available for i386.
Dang.
Didn't I see that aptitude won't install something if it previously
discovered it was un-installable?
This would mean that, if we can't promote mit-scheme to a dependency,
the failure to install that today's cluster systems experience would
be hard to remedy.
-Bill
