(Thinking aloud) Priorized defaults

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]

> 
> PACKAGES aptitude
> 
> abc
> bcd
> cde
> diffutils | diff
> [...]
> 
> So diffutils is being installed unless not installable/unavailable
> and then diff should be taken instead.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 

I'm not sure about PACKAGES aptitude, but when using PACKAGES install a simple

abc
bcd
cde
diffutils diff

should be fine, because install_packages would simply drop the unavailable
packages. It would yield a warning, though.

Best,
Michael

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