bizarre multi-arch error

[Jeff Johnson]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

>> What?!? Install a i386 package to satisfy x86_64 requirements??  
>> That's
>> clearly wrong.
>
> If package A has a dependency on D and package B provides D, and
> package A and B are both installable, there's nothing wrong in
> satisfying one with the other, from a dependency solver point
> of view.
>

The corollary is

     Dependencies from package monkeys are increasingly useless for  
depsolving.

73 de Jeff