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Re: coreutils with acl support



On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:05:34PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
What'd be the problem with a package "coreutils-acl" that just Conflicts:
and Provides: coreutils?

I'd worry about the fragility of such a system in the face of upgrades,
the inability for a coreutils-acl to do a versioned provides: of
coreutils (meaning people would need to depend on some version of
coreutils|coreutils-acl), and the difficulty in removing such a package
in the future.
Mike Stone



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