Re: Overwriting files from other packages will require Replaces
On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, Carl V Streeter wrote:
> Dale Scheetz writes:
> >
> > so the question is: shouldn't pine
> > and metamail conflict?
>
> Only in the sense that elm and pine, or lynx and netscape should ;)
Ie. NOT? Sounds like two packages providing the same functionality don't
necessarily conflict. How does the decission get made as any two
packages begin to look more and more like sendmail/smail? These two do
conflict, right?
>
> > If not, I can install mailcap in the postinstall
> > script, only if it doesn't already exist.
>
> It really needs to get centralized somehow.
I agree completely (I think ;-)
Dwarf
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