On Wednesday 16 February 2005 19:45, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Hereby I propose to solve this problem by creating a new dummy package > > called "utf8" that just conflicts with software broken in UTF-8 locales. > > Also the "locales" package should tell the user that the "utf8" package > > exists. > > Or package tags. But your idea is workable, it is just that it ain't > anywhere close to nice to maintain (as the "task packages" proved).
I am not familiar with tags. What will happen if I type: apt-get install mc ? > > The solution above is, however, highly suboptimal. If you know any way to > > set up things so that I don't even _see_ broken software as available in > > kpackage or other apt frontends, please share your thoughts. > > You can probably work with package tags to do so after some configuration > to tag-based aptitude, I think. As long as that config ain't the default, > there is no problem. It would still be nice if the "locales" package asked the question (via debconf) whether I want to reconfigure my system that way. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
