Re: sysvinit & kbd
On 16 Mar 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Ah I forgot the smiley ;)
>
> Never mind, it's fixed in the 2.74-2 that I am about to upload. Now
> I hope people do not start sending in bugreports about file being
> left behind when upgrading from some certain versions of kbd and
> sysvinit to the latest versions, but we'll see.
>
> >While we are complaining about these two, they mutually conflict and that
> >is evil!
>
> .. but legal. Just install them in one go.
Excuse me? No. You must remove kbd and then install sysvinit and then kbd
again. dpkg will not allow to unpack a package that causes a conflicts to
be false (except in some obscure cases).
Just to stress this, circular conflicts/conflicts looping is very bad,
predepends/conflicts looping is very bad and predepends/predepends is
frobidden. Also when dealing with essentail packages and their recursive
dependancies you must advoid loops involved depends as well.
Jason
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