Hi RUssell,
> During the process of updating some texlive packages, I ended up in a > situation > where a package was trying to overwrite a file from another texlive package. Not good. > I'm not sure what the correct process is here, but should texlive-science > conflict with texlive-math-extra so that this can't happen? Not conflict, but replace. This is missing. Will be added for the next release. > I did get into this situation by running an apt-get install command to try and > only upgrade a few texlive packages without updating everything. So using > apt- > get upgrade may have avoided this situation? I don't really know. Well, that is not really supported, but still it is a bug that should be fixed. You should be forced to update all texlive packages in one go. Thanks and all the best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13