> Won't our turning off --force-overwrite in 2.0 be a more realistic > solution of this problem? Aren't most package conflicts really > related to their usage of competing file structures? Or am I totally > off-base here? kde's version of kdelib is not compatible with my kdelib : we have different path schemes (they use /opt, i use /usr). so their packages need their library, my packages need my library, else noone will find it's file. andreas