Re: installing a package that wants the "wrong" java

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Florian Diesch wrote:

If you use "sun-java6-sdk | java6-sdk" as dependency the package
manager will accept any package providing java6-sdk and install
sun-java6-sdk if no package providing java6-sdk is already installed

just to be clear, is that *precisely* what that expression means?
i'm used to the standard "OR" operator being commutative so if i was
reading that expression from a position of pure ignorance (not a
far-fetched notion), i would interpret that as one or the other, and
it didn't matter which.

the way you describe it, i would have to interpret that expression
as "sun-java6-jdk UNLESS java6-sdk (is already installed)"; in other
words, order very much makes a difference. am i reading that
correctly?

rday

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