On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:33:56AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote: > Also, I have noticed that some of the packages you mention that are having > problems with libxpm4 depend directly on xpm4g rather than libxpm4, so > some of these problems could be fixed by making xlibs provide xpm4g. > This won't work for packages with versioned dependancies on xpm4g, > however, which include most of the packages that apt/dselect want to > remove ... :( > NO NO NO NO NO xpm4g is so old and out of date that it shouldn't be poerpetuated If these packages don't update to use libxpm4 as the xpm in potato and woody provide, and that XF4 provides, they deserve to be uninstallible because the maintainers are either awol, or just plain ignoring bug reports PS: Branden, maybe this should go in a FAQ Frank aka Myth
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