bug#30569: Packages count as installed twice

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:55:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> What should we do?  Status quo?  Throwing a ‘delete-duplicates’ call?
>> Let’s have a poll!  ;-)
>
> The thing is confusing, and delete-duplicates should be essentially for free,
> so I would support to call it. (Well, I filed the bug since I consider this
> behaviour to be a bug, no big surprise then!)

I agree.  I don’t see a reason to allow for the same package to appear
more than once in the manifest.

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Ricardo

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