Wouter Verhelst writes ("Re: RFC: Policy 10.1 and appropriateness of package
conflicts"):
> wou...@celtic:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 jun 6 07:23 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.4
> wou...@celtic:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc
> gcc: /usr/bin/gcc
> wou...@celtic:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
> gcc-4.1: /usr/bin/gcc-4.1
>
> How is that any different?
The name "gcc" isn't namespace pollution. The package which provides
the name gcc is also a stably-named metapackage so has another reason
for existing. I don't think this is the case with fsl.
Ian.
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