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Issue created Apr 14, 2021 by Alex Denes@caskd

solver: Highest requirer count over provider_priority

Considering the higher requirer count over priority causes conflicts where a package has many provides.

This has been observed in the case of pipewire-pulse replacing pulseaudio because it also provides pulseaudio-alsa.

  • https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/df9236a95b5db68764a945b6c38a1a5e5d99d51d/community/pipewire/APKBUILD#L49-50
  • https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/df9236a95b5db68764a945b6c38a1a5e5d99d51d/community/pulseaudio/APKBUILD#L11

Source:

  • https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools/-/blob/f7143c1766ae59489ac922e890ffe6d4a61c3b2d/src/solver.c#L600-605
  • https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools/-/blob/f7143c1766ae59489ac922e890ffe6d4a61c3b2d/src/solver.c#L646-651

Simply taking the provider priority over requirer count solves this problem.

Edited Apr 14, 2021 by Alex Denes
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