Package conflicts (Was: Re: Bug#2539: general) debian-unstable)
sde1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Early) wrote on 18.03.96 in <[🔎] m0tylJN-00028nC@myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk>:
> In article <[🔎] 314B97EB.43FD034F@lehigh.edu> you write:
> >When I selected xbase, it says that it conflicted with xstd. Curiously,
> >though, xstd does not seem to be here. I will swear that it did appear
> >in the conflicts list, saying that it _required_ xbase.
>
> xstd no longer exists. Modern xbase packages conflict with it to
> ensure that it is not installed.
Hmm. It seems it would be useful to have a tool that can check all
dependencies and conflicts of all packages, to check for problems in the
distribution - not so much for the individual end user, as for the
distribution maintainers and for people creating new packages or modifying
dependencies or conflicts.
That tool could, for example, report "it's currently impossible to install
package X because it needs Y and Z, which conflict", or similar problems.
I see two general options here - either creating one somehow from dpkg. or
a completely independant effort.
Any comments?
MfG Kai
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