Re: Conflicts vs Replaces vs Provides

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Am 05.12.2010 um 12:05 schrieb Harald Dunkel:

> I found this in debian/control for libgl1-mesa-glx:
>
> 	:
> 	Conflicts: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0)
> 	Replaces: libgl1, libgl1-mesa-dri (<< 6.4.0)
> 	Provides: libgl1
> 	:
>
> This looks weird to me. How can it replace and conflict with
> its own virtual package name?

There is nothing wrong with that, packages providing
mail-transport-agent are in the same situation.

> Doesn't this mean that no other
> packages providing libgl1 can be installed,

Not along libgl1-mesa-glx, yes.  It's not like there are many other
providers currently.

> making /etc/alternatives useless?

There are no alternatives in the libgl1-mesa-glx package, could you
please elaborate?

> Any helpful comment would be highly appreciated.

Hope this was helpful enough.  What do you want to do, anyway?

Cheers,
       Sven