* Anthony DeRobertis (asd@suespammers.org) wrote: > Proposal: > A. dpkg will be extended to support installing two packages with > the same name, but different ABIs, as previously proposed. Yeah, so, you've already killed it, sorry. Lots of assumptions in the system based on single-package single-name, not to mention much more complex for our users to have to deal with. > B. dpkg will be extended to support two packages with the same name > (as above) both owning the same file. It will only remove a file > from the filesystem when the last owning package is removed. Uhhh, and if the files are different between the two packages? What about different versions of the packages? I see below you're just going to 'error out', there's a small problem there though, that's probably going to be pretty often and that makes it not a reasonable thing to do. Not to mention the added complexity to dpkg, bringing in lots of opportunity for bugs and making life that much more confusing for our users. Stephen
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