> The important thing to realise is that Debian is in fact > seriously flawed and needs to be fixed! > > I hope that (a) the need for a mutual exclusion guarantee > is not in dispute and (b) that the existing unilateral > declaration of such an exclusion by the 'Conflicts' > declaration in a package is taken as the way to > declare such an exclusion, and (c) everyone agrees > that Debian does not correctly maintain the invariant > and (d) my technique is one way to fix the problem. > > This leaves open the question of the best way to > implement the requirement (my solution is only an existence proof) > the important thing is that if you install A which conflicts with B, > and then try to install B, the attempt will be refused: more > precisely, exclusion declarations specify invariants which > must be maintained. > > Question: what object do I file a BUG against in the BTS?
Debian Policy ? Dpkg ? Apt ? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
