Re: potato: procps and bsdutils conflict?
Hwei Sheng TEOH <hsteoh@cs.toronto.edu> writes:
> Hmmm, only one combination seems to work though... installing procps first
> will cause dpkg to complain when bsdutils is being installed. For some reason,
> installing procps on top of bsdutils seem to simply overwrite /bin/kill with
> no warning. I'm not sure how good this situation is, but I suppose both
> versions of /bin/kill does the same thing. (It doesn't really affect me
> because I use tcsh and it has a built-in kill command.).
That's because procps says "Replaces: bsdmainutils" (which means it contains
some files which replace like-named files from bsdmainutils), while
bsdmainutils doesn't have the reverse. This'll all be ironed out eventually.
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