On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:11:54PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl ... > > So if apt tries to install pilot-manager, he will try to install perl > which will remove perl-5.005 and that will cause the removing of > perl-tk breaking pilot-manager dependencies ... > > Nice isn't it ? Darren, when will you update pilot-manager and when > will you upload pilot-link's NMU you've prepared ? It's really time > now.
this reminds me of something odd i saw a few days ago when i finally started upgrading my machines to perl-5.005 (btw, you've all done an excellent job on the transition - it's been a lot smoother and safer than i expected it to be). is perl-5.005 supposed to conflict with perl-5.004? you can't (easily) have both installed at the same time. you can have perl-5.004-base as well as the 5.005 packages, but a conflicting Recommends prevents selection of both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 i.e. perl-5.004 recommends perl-5.004-doc, which conflicts with perl-5.005-doc. perl-5.005 recommends perl-5.005-doc, which conflicts with perl-5.004-doc. experienced dselect users will have no great trouble with this - press 'R' to revert to selected packages, then press 'Q' to ignore the pseudo-conflict. novice users will be trapped in a never-ending conflict resolution where every time they hit Enter, all their perl packages will be de-selected. please, please, please kill the Recommends. use Suggests: instead. Recommends is evil, it is nothing more than a Suggests which won't take "No" for an answer. craig -- craig sanders
