Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > The current control file for perl-5.005-base looks like this: > Package: perl-5.005-base > Version: 5.005.03-0.8 > Architecture: i386 > Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), libgdbmg1 > Suggests: perl-5.005 > Conflicts: perl > Replaces: perl-base > Provides: perl5-base > Installed-Size: 1140 > Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Source: perl-5.005 > Description: The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister > > This should keep it from being installed if non-versioned Perl is still > installed. It occurs to me that should make this > Conflicts: perl-base > instead so that if someone has never installed the full Perl package, > it will still conflict with the perl-base installed.
It won't work. perl-base is Essential, and perl-5.005-base is not. Should it be Essential? What is the whole setup? Richard Braakman
