Re: Unmet Deps revisted
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>> >If there are optional packages that conflict with each other, we should
>> >choose one to stay in optional and move the others to extra. (Or change/
>> >clarify the definition on the policy manual).
>>
>> The manual should be fixed IMHO - there are lots of places where this is
>> bogus. Consider the xserver packages, for example...
>
>This is not a good example.
>The xserver packages do not conflict at each other.
>You can install all of them.
Hmmm, guess so. My mistake. But surely there are some optional packages
that can legitimately conflict...? And I'm still not convinced this is a
major issue...
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