Re: Conflicting packages not of extra priority.
On 8 Feb 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> Santiago Vila writes:
> > You will be glad to know that I have already presented a formal proposal
> > to change the defintion of "extra" to this:
>
> > "This contains packages that conflict with others with required,
> > important, standard or optional priorities, or are only likely to be
> > useful if you already know what they are or have specialised requirements."
>
> Don't you need an exception for c/p/r's and such?
No. They're new versions, essentially. New versions with different
names.
If A c/p/r B, then B will either be removed from the dist (the common
case) or moved to extra (if there is a reason that some people might
prefer B).
Jules
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