This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and
perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said:

perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base.
perl-base conflicts with perl

I don't understand that one. But it would not install them.
        
Rod Person

"Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen!"
-Alx Hellid 
 Contempt

> ----------
> From:         Jiri Baum[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent:         Tuesday, October 27, 1998 2:17 PM
> To:   Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:      Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user:
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> ...
> > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package
> would
> > > help you decide what to install.
> > 
> > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description!  Feel
> free
> > to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post
> the
> > results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public
> scrutiny.
> 
> I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are
> very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them).
> 
> This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want.
> Each of them says basically "this is a better news transport program,
> replaces c-news". But which one should I get for my system? (Home
> computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.)
> 
> 
> Is that roughly what you were complaining about?
> 
> Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

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