Re: Sarge is trying to remove Netscape
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:53:23AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:39:15 +0100
> Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> wrote:
> > The latest round of updates seems to be trying to
> > remove my netscape browser, which is much unappreciated.
>
> Presumably you mean Netscape 4.77. It depends on old X library
> packages whose functionality is replaced by new packages (with
> different names) in Xfree86 v4.3. That said, I don't know whether
> the issue is that the new libraries are in some way incompatible
> with the old library calls (so that NS4 won't work with them);
> or whether it's simply a reorganizing of package contents and
> the NS4 packages don't know about the new packages (they don't
> explicity satisfy NS4's dependencies) and the new packages
> don't have "Provides:" fields covering the old libraries.
I understand that the new XFree86 packages are going to stop conflicting
with the old libc5-based X libraries in the next update.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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