Re: Unmet Deps revisted

[Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:

>Please note that a suboptimal packaging does not legitimate the conflict.
>For example, my unzip and unzip-crypt packages do conflict at each other,
>and they are optional, so I should probably make them compatible, like
>pgp-i and pgp-us, for example. [ And of course, I will not mind that
>unzip-crypt is demoted to extra until I repackage them ].
>
>(Yeah, I put my own packages as examples of suboptimal packaging!
>I hope the pgp-i and pgp-us example will help you to see that surely most
>of these conflicts are gratuituous).

I guess so. Hmmm. I'm still not convinced it's a major thing to be worried
about. I presume nobody's going to argue that "extra" packages can't
conflict with each other...?

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