On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:19:11AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Erik wrote: > > > I've looked at these patches extensively in the past. IMHO, they are > > > worthless for general use. For example, dpkg implements file conflict > > > checking and so on itself at deb install time, whereas the file conflict > > > checking in corel's alien is done at package conversion time. But the > > > converted package may not be installed on the machine it is built on! > > > > > In that case you need some intelligence to decide if there should be > > a conflicts, or depends on that package(could probably look at > > the output of apt-cache showpkg <package>, to get an idea > > of if other packages depend on the package, possibly for files like > > those, or if it just happens to have the same files). > > Why? dpkg does this checking itself. Because if your aliening it then dpkg doesn't know. All it knows is there is the same file in two packages. > > -- > see shy jo > -- Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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