On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > >Please note that a suboptimal packaging does not legitimate the conflict. > >For example, my unzip and unzip-crypt packages do conflict at each other, > >and they are optional, so I should probably make them compatible, like > >pgp-i and pgp-us, for example. [ And of course, I will not mind that > >unzip-crypt is demoted to extra until I repackage them ]. > > > >(Yeah, I put my own packages as examples of suboptimal packaging! > >I hope the pgp-i and pgp-us example will help you to see that surely most > >of these conflicts are gratuituous). > > I guess so. Hmmm. I'm still not convinced it's a major thing to be worried > about. I presume nobody's going to argue that "extra" packages can't > conflict with each other...?
Of course not. That's the *whole* point. Extra is precisely the priority for packages with conflict with other packages (in any priority, including extra). Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
