On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:51:05AM +0200, David Riebenbauer wrote: > The problem is afaik that xlibmesa-gl-dev provides libgl-dev _and_ > also collides with libgl-dev at the same time. > It collides with itself, which may confuse apt. > > Or should this be possible ad this is a bug in apt? Shouldn't be a problem. See section 7.3 of the Debian Policy Manual. A special exception is made for packages which declare a conflict with their own package name, or with a virtual package which they provide (see below): this does not prevent their installation, and allows a package to conflict with others providing a replacement for it. You use this feature when you want the package in question to be the only package providing some feature. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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