>>>>> Marcus Brinkmann writes: MB> This is less complex then the current mechanism, because we only MB> need "provide" and "depends", and hopefully not "conflicts" and MB> "replaces".
No package needs Conflicts and Replaces. They are just shorthands for Provides (given that two packages cannot Provide the same thing, which I assume is the current implementation): A Conflicts B == A Provides C, B Provides C A Replaces B == A Provides B -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)

