Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

[peanut butter <pyeatman@cass20.ucsd.edu>]

> > What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib"
> > vs. "non-free".  Which naturally leads to: is one better
> > than the other?
> 
> The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon
> the real packages in non-free.  Rather than downloading and trying to
> install it, let apt-get handle the dependencies for you 
> (apt-get install communicator).
> 

Hmmm, ok.  What's strange is, using 'apt' with dselect the whole
time, an 'update' and 'install' chose to download and install the
"previously deselected", non-free versions of Communicator thus
creating a conflict (now if I go to 'select', it wants to rectify
this conflict upon exiting).  Shouldn't 'apt' with dselect have been
just as good at handling the dependencies as 'apt-get'?  And now
that I have the conflict, should I let 'select's resolution of
removing the non-free packages prevail?

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Paul Yeatman       (858) 534-9896        pyeatman@ucsd.edu
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