Randy McMurchy wrote:

> But, I'm replying more about the libedit issue. CC'ing -dev as well,
> because I'm wondering if we shouldn't remove the libedit dependencies
> in the book, or at least put big cautions about using it.
> 
> No hurries to do anything, just looking for input. The issue, for
> those that haven't followed Thierry's problem with Samba, is that
> libedit is listed as a dependency of BC. However, if you don't
> know better and install libedit, it overwrites some of Readline's
> files rendering your system unstable (or unstable for a development
> platform anyway).

Overwriting another package's files is not playing nice.  Is there a way
to change the install to have it not do that.

  -- Bruce
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