Re: dselect Woes

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antkaij@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 03:09:24PM -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> (I would think "all packages" would mean exactly that but it
> apparently does not.)

You cannot install everything.  This is intentional: the distribution
contains many packages which conflict, that is, which cannot coexist
in a machine.  Examples include Smail and Sendmail: they'd be at each
others' throat if they were simultaneously present in a machine - both
trying to do one's job, but in the processing trashing the other's.



        Antti-Juhani
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