Re: Essential pacakges
On 7 Mar 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> > Yes, but available in the same dist? I think that is wrong. I can see the
> > point in having say some package in hamm that obsoletes some package in
> > bo, but these two are designed to be available at the same time!
>
> Then really they should conflict and not replace. I'm not sure if
> dpkg will handle that gracefully as the first can't be removed before
> the second is installed.
Erm, they should not conflict, as soon as you have two essential packages
conflicting with each other you raise the questions which is more
essential. That cannot be easially solved algorithmically unless it is an
upgrade case.
Jason
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