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On Thursday 18 August 2011 19:25:48 Darren Hart wrote:
> How do DEFAULT_PREFERENCE and PREFERRED_VERSION relate to each other?
> Does one trump the other?

DEFAULT_PREFERENCE is intentionally weak (says RP) and will be overridden by 
PREFERRED_VERSION_packagename if the latter is specified.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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