[I am Cc:ing to debian-mentors. Hope that does not bother you.] On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 03:02:21AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Could you change the "Suggests: prcs-el" to "Recommends: prcs-el"? I > forget how apt handles each of these... One way to fix the > upgrade-specific problem would be to include a "Depends:" on prcs-el, > but this will likely upset quite a few people that don't actually have > to do the upgrade.. :) I much prefer the "Suggests: prcs-el". The other options sound too authoritarian for me. > Another thought -- could you have in the preinst for prcs some commands > that would delete the prcs.elc and 50prcs.el files from the path that > xemacs20 plays with? I also think that this will fix the problem. I will try that. Thanks. > It would seem to me that this would be the thing to > do; if the user wanted the emacs stuff, they would install prcs-el. If > they don't want, then prcs should trash it. Right. > (But it might be a good idea > for prcs to check if prcs-el is already installed before deleting files. > :) There is no danger here, as the files have different names: 50prcs.el for the prcs package and 50prcs-el.el for prcs-el. -- Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
